[cfe-dev] LTO on FreeBSD

[Jean-Daniel Dupas]

Le 30 juin 2010 à 16:58, SKL a écrit :

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>>> What about llvm-ld? Should it not be useable as a linker on FreeBSD?
>> 
>> llvm-ld is half-baked at best, it doesn't know a lot of options that your system linker does.  It may work for simple things, but probably not for largish real world programs.
> 
> Ah, I had been curious about this as well. Is the long-term goal for llvm-ld to be a full drop-in replacement for the system linker?
> 
> So, my original assumption that the OS X clang is using ld with the gold plugins was correct? If so, I'm curious where it's hidden away. I see a lot of libLLVMContainer.dylib files under the /Developer tree, but no files relating to "gold" anywhere. 

No. Apple ld is not GNU ld and it does not use the gold plugin. It uses libLTO.dylib directly (if present).


-- Jean-Daniel