<div dir="ltr">> <span style="font-size:12.8px">In any case, I have simply wasted too much time on a thread with someone with no patches on the new elf linker. It is really annoying that you don't put effort into it and seem entitled to dictate its direction.</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Sorry about that. I was initially planning to work on a patch to enhance the interface for new lld - hence my questions in the original post. Since I learned that people writing the code for lld are hostile to the idea of linker-as-a-library, error_code is treated as spaghetti (which would be fine if LLVM used exceptions which it does not) and patches, even if submitted, will not actually be reviewed in a timely manner, I'll try to adapt my code to either not use lld or use lld-as-a-binary.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">I'm disappointed by all of this but obviously it's not my project so I should not have a say in this.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Thank you for your time.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Arseny</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Rafael Espíndola <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafael.espindola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr">> Also, one of the other possible motivations of using LLD directly from Clang would be to avoid process overhead on operating systems where that is a much more significant part of the compile time cost. We could today actually take the fork out of the Clang driver because the Clang frontend *is* designed in this way. But we would also need LLD to work in this way.</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">Then go change clang and send a patch for lld once you are done. It will be interested to see if you can measure a single fork in an entire build.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Even better, please finish the new pass manager before working on clang forking cc1.</p>
<p dir="ltr">In any case, I have simply wasted too much time on a thread with someone with no patches on the new elf linker. It is really annoying that you don't put effort into it and seem entitled to dictate its direction.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you want to kick us out of the llvm project, please start a thread on llvm-dev.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you want lld to be a library, figure out how to do it without sacrificing lld's productivity, error reporting and performance (no error_code spaghetti) and write a patch. Just don't expect it to be reviewed while we have actual missing features.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I will go back to implementing the linker.</p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
<p dir="ltr">Rafael</p>
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