[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[James Molloy via llvm-dev]

I was writing a response but David and Tim got there first more eloquently.
+1 to both of them.

I also find your tone worryingly totalitarian, Rafael.
On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 at 21:23, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 21 March 2016 at 17:20, James Molloy via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > Rafael,
> >
> > How can a high quality product crash by design? I understand the lack of
> > structured error handling, and I understand asserting (which in release
> mode
> > would be silent) on internal errors. But on an input? How can an
> application
> > be taken seriously when crashes are design features?
> >
> > And I certainly didn't see consensus or in fact the suggestion of this in
> > the other thread, unless I glazed over an important part.
> >
>
> It can crash because .o files are not user input. They are generated.
> To get one you need a broken assembler or a broken hardware.
>
> Sorry if lld is not the linker you want, but that is the one we are
> writing.
>
> As for how it will be taken seriously, well, we seem to be on good
> track to be able to link freebsd and to do so faster than gold.
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
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