[PATCH] D70011: lld patch for Linker Script UTF-8 BOM encoding capability

Cameron via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Nov 8 10:44:47 PST 2019


cameron314 added a comment.

`ld` ignores the BOM, but still links. `lld` mistakes it for part of the next token and generates an error.

A BOM is perfectly valid at the start of a UTF-8 file (though not very useful, granted). Why //not// support it? Other tools under the LLVM umbrella do, e.g. `clang`.


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