HA: [PATCH] D14382: [ELF2] - Basic implementation of -r/--relocatable

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits]

On Nov 5, 2015 1:22 PM, "George Rimar" <grimar at accesssoftek.com> wrote:
>
> >Really? Then what's the point of  -r from the users' perspective
compared to ar?
>
> Just as a guess - if we have huge amount of files then probably ar will
work slower.

If so that is a bug in AR :-)

The only semantics difference I can think of is that ld -r is equivalent to
using --whole-archive.

I will check if gold or bfd resolve relocations. It would be a cool
optimization one way or the other, but we should probably delay it a bit if
they don't.

Cheers,Rafael
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