[PATCH] D24725: [ELF] - Linkerscript: implemented --orphan-handling command line option.

[Ed Maste via llvm-commits]

On 20 September 2016 at 13:48, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
> I can see that it could be a useful option in some situation, and I
> understand that this is not a large patch, but still I think I'd like to
> hold on until someone comes to us and says that *I* want this option and
> convince us of a need. It shouldn't be too late to add this feature after we
> understand the need and who wants it.

This option would have been useful during the FreeBSD-with-lld
bring-up to track down orphan sections. Now we know what they are so
don't need it any longer, but it would have been very useful before.