[LLVMdev] Win32 COFF Support

[Michael Spencer]

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Matt Fleming <matt at console-pimps.org> wrote:
> FYI, I've been working wth Daniel to try and pull all the Mach-O
> specific things out of llvm-mc and lib/MC and put them into object file
> classes. Once those patches are merged it should be a small matter of
> programming to get COFF support for llvm-mc, given that the ObjectWriter
> and Streamer stuff is already written.

How would this work? Aren't there object type specific directives in
assembly files?

I know some people are working on native linkers for LLVM. It would be
interesting to see an architecture for handling object files that
could be shared between lib/MC and a linker.

- Michael Spencer