[llvm-dev] [GSOC 2018] GNU Binutils replacement

[Friedman, Eli via llvm-dev]

On 3/19/2018 11:49 AM, Jake Ehrlich via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hi Sebastiaan,
>
> I'm not the creator of the this GSOC project but I might be able to 
> help. I'm the author of llvm-objcopy, and the soon to be creator of 
> the symlink llvm-strip to llvm-objcopy (which currently doesn't 
> exist). The reason llvm-objcopy and llvm-strip don't have 
> documentation pages is because I haven't written them yet; I'll get on 
> that!
>
> 1. The goal is to work towards extending the existing interfaces so 
> that the existing tools can be used as drop in replacements in more 
> projects. Most tools that have GNU binutils equivalents have some GNU 
> binutil CLI compatible interface. I think llvm-as could probably be 
> extended slowly but surely to be a better more practical replacement 
> for GNU as.

Is there a typo somewhere in there?  "llvm-as" and "GNU as" are 
completely unrelated.

-Eli

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