[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] [8.0.0 Release] One week to the branch

[Jordan Rupprecht via llvm-dev]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 6:26 AM Martin Storsjö <martin at martin.st> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The COFF support in llvm-objcopy is in a pretty half-finished state at the
> moment. I had hoped to have it mostly usable for the common scenarios by
> the time of the branch (the initial patch was sent at the end of
> November), but it's still lacking stripping of sections (while stripping
> of symbols is pretty much done) and a few other minor features I have
> waiting to be polished up according to review comments.
>
> When used right now, it won't error out or warn about not doing what
> actually was requested, but just copy the object/executable and do some
> symbol removals if requested.
>
> With the branch coming real soon, what's the preferred course of action?
>
> 0 - Do nothing, release this as is. As llvm-objcopy hasn't supported COFF
> before, nobody will try it and run into the issue.
>
Option 0 seems fine to me


>
> 1 - Rip out the COFF support in the branch and let it error out as it did
> before.
>
> 2 - Add a custom patch for the branch, which makes the tool error out if
> an option that is known to be unimplemented/incomplete is specified,
> keeping the functionality that is known to be complete.
>
> 3 - Merge the llvm-objcopy/COFF patches to the release branch as things
> are completed in trunk during the rc phase, hopefully reaching a more
> complete state within that timeframe. As this is a new feature, it
> shouldn't have any stability impact on the rest (at least as long as we
> don't end up needing to patch other libraries in the process).
>
> What do you think?
>
> // Martin
>
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2019, Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > This is just a quick reminder that the upcoming release branch is
> > scheduled for creation one week from today, on Wednesday 16 January
> > 2019.
> >
> > The full schedule is available under "Upcoming Releases" in the right
> > column at https://llvm.org.
> >
> > Please try to avoid committing disruptive changes just before or after
> > the branch.
> >
> > As the branch is created, the trunk version will become 9.0.0.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Hans
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