[llvm-commits] [lld] r152939 - /lld/trunk/www/index.html
Nick Kledzik
kledzik at apple.com
Fri Mar 16 13:03:06 PDT 2012
Author: kledzik
Date: Fri Mar 16 15:03:05 2012
New Revision: 152939
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=152939&view=rev
Log:
Add more details about file formats. Fix whitespace.
Modified:
lld/trunk/www/index.html
Modified: lld/trunk/www/index.html
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lld/trunk/www/index.html?rev=152939&r1=152938&r2=152939&view=diff
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--- lld/trunk/www/index.html (original)
+++ lld/trunk/www/index.html Fri Mar 16 15:03:05 2012
@@ -41,15 +41,17 @@
<h2 id="goals">Features and Goals</h2>
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- <p><b>End-User Features:</b></p>
+ <p><b>End-User Features:</b></p>
<ul>
- <li>Compatible with existing linker options</li>
+ <li>Compatible with existing linker options</li>
+ <li>Reads standard Object Files (e.g. ELF, mach-o, PE/COFF)</li>
+ <li>Writes standard Executable Files (e.g. ELF, mach-o, PE)</li>
<li>Fast link times</li>
<li>Minimal memory use</li>
<li>Remove clang's reliance on "the system linker"</li>
</ul>
- <p><b>Applications:</b></p>
+ <p><b>Applications:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Use the LLVM 'BSD' License</li>
<li>Modular design</li>
@@ -57,12 +59,13 @@
<li>Easy to add new CPU support</li>
<li>Can be built as static tool or library</li>
</ul>
-
- <p><b>Design and Implementation:</b></p>
+
+ <p><b>Design and Implementation:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Extensive unit tests</li>
<li>Internal linker model can be dumped/read to textual format</li>
- <li>Internal linker model can be dumped/read to new native format</li>
+ <li>Internal linker model can be dumped/read to new native format</li>
+ <li>Native format designed to be fast to read and write</li>
<li>Additional linking features can be plugged in as "passes"</li>
<li>OS specific and CPU specific code factored out</li>
</ul>
@@ -72,12 +75,12 @@
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<p>The fact that clang relies on whatever linker tool you happen to have
- installed means that clang has been very conservative adopting features
- which require a recent linker.</p>
-
+ installed means that clang has been very conservative adopting features
+ which require a recent linker.</p>
+
<p>In the same way that the MC layer of LLVM has removed clang's reliance
- on the system assembler tool, the lld project will remove clang's reliance
- on the system linker tool.</p>
+ on the system assembler tool, the lld project will remove clang's reliance
+ on the system linker tool.</p>
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