[lld] r230157 - [ELF] Teach GNU Driver about --stats.

[Joerg Sonnenberger]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 04:18:07PM -0800, Davide Italiano wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:38 AM, Joerg Sonnenberger
> <joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 03:12:21AM -0000, Davide Italiano wrote:
> >>
> >> This is mainly for back-compatibility with GNU ld.
> >
> > Who uses that option? First time I heard about it from a non-debugging
> > perspective.
> >
> 
> As I already told you on IRC, not sure how widely this is used, but
> before breaking compat I would like to have a wider discussion with
> all the people interested in lld/ELF/GNU driver. I mainly uses this
> for debugging purposes, FWIW, so I can live without it, but I can't
> make a general statement about its usage.

I don't think there is any point in compatiblity for debugging options,
especially as we want to commit to the output format for them. As I
mentioned on IRC, if anything, we should try to be consistent with clang
or other llvm tools.

Joerg