[cfe-dev] Clang builds a working Linux Kernel (Boots to RL5 with SMP, networking and X, self hosts)

[Sylvere Teissier]

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On 27/10/2010 14:53, Rafael Espíndola wrote:
>> Now that LLVM is supposedly able to emit ELF object files without assistance from external tools, what is holding back llvm-ld from being used to produce the final executable? Is llvm-ld a priority of the MC subproject?
> 
> LLVM should be able to produce .o files now. To produce .so and
> executable files it needs to be able implement the relocations instead
> of just listing them. To replace the system linker you will also need
> to be able to read ELF and implement support for linker scripts.
> 
Yes ! And before writing a linker you need a low-level library that
manipulate and do abstraction of binary objects formats.
For example in gnu ld it's called "libbfd".

An alternative to "libbfd" for llvm project is proposed by bigcheese here:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2010-September/034412.html
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