[cfe-dev] RFC: How should Clang/LLVM runtime libraries be installed and found during link steps?

[John Criswell]

On 11/23/2011 2:18 AM, Ruben Van Boxem wrote:
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>     Should runtime libraries be installed as archives? .o files? .so
>     files? (gasp) bitcode? Some mixture of these? What mixture, and
>     how do we decide? I lean  toward .o files as bitcode where the
>     linker supports it, normal .o files where it supports those, and
>     .a files only as a fallback. Not very confident of these
>     preferences though.
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> libraries -> .a/so files... They're target specific anyways, why even 
> consider bitcode?

Bitcode libraries allow their code to be inter-procedurally optimized by 
libLTO.  For example, we used to compile libstdc++ in llvm-gcc to 
bitcode; this allowed us to inline C++ standard library functions into 
the main program and perform optimizations such as dead code 
elimination, inter-procedural constant propagation, etc, etc.

-- John T.

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