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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">Hello , </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The linker is ldarm64.EXE </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">The llvm version is 3.8.1.1</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d">/llvm-3.8.1.1/WIN32/bin/ldarm64.EXE </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#1f497d">Re,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#1f497d">Yehuda Marko</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#1f497d"><a href="mailto:Yehuda.Marko@scaleil.com"><span style="color:#0563c1">Yehuda.Marko@scaleil.com</span></a> +972544373003</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Constantia",serif;color:#1f497d">ScaleIL</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:gray">This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and contains information that is confidential and proprietary to ScaleIL. 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If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Mehdi AMINI [mailto:<a href="mailto:joker.eph@gmail.com">joker.eph@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 16, 2019 8:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> yehuda marko <<a href="mailto:yehuda.marko@scaleil.com">yehuda.marko@scaleil.com</a>><br><b>Cc:</b> LLVM Developers Mailing List <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [llvm-dev] force linker to load symbols from archive (8.a) , even application does not use them explicitly</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:37 PM yehuda marko via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</p></div><blockquote style="border:none;border-right:solid #cccccc 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Hello,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmail-m54216858426956632uioutputtextarea">I want to force the linker to load all the symbols (object files) related to specific archive (.a) even though the application does not use them explicitly. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmail-m54216858426956632uioutputtextarea"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span class="gmail-m54216858426956632uioutputtextarea">(In similar in gnu linker the option for the linker will be –whole-archive, or in diab –A ).</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">It seems that your question relates to the linker, are you asking about lld? lld supports the --whole-archive flag as well I believe.</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">If your question is not about lld, can you clarify what you're looking for exactly?</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Best,</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Mehdi</p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>