[llvm-commits] patch to llvm-link to link in archives

[Rafael Espíndola]

On 11 August 2012 09:58, NAKAMURA Takumi <geek4civic at gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK, no LLVM tools could handle llvm-ar-generated *.bca, since
> llvm-ld had gone.
> I think llvm-link would be the right place to handle bca.
>
> Or, how about introducing "llvm-link-archive" ?

Is there any particular reason we need our own archive format? The
existing solutions for doing LTO (linker plugin) and the one being
developed (lld) work with the native system formats, so IMHO we should
drop the llvm specific one.

> ...Takumi

Cheers,
Rafael