[PATCH] D27070: Implement STARTUP linker script command.

[Sean Silva via llvm-commits]

On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Davide Italiano via llvm-commits <
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> davide added a comment.
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> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D27070#604904, @ruiu wrote:
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> > LLVM and LLDB but lld? It feels odd that a proper noun is all lowercase
> letters.
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> Apparently Michael chose the name, and it's the one we have in
> http://lld.llvm.org/
> While here, it also feels very weird having lld not respecting acronyms,
> FWIW (e.g. Lto instead of LTO as it's spelled anywhere else in LLVM). I
> would like to make this change if you have no objections.
>

Rafael's explanation for that convention in some other thread was that the
style creeped in from the ELF spec. E.g. all the types have ELF as `Elf`.
I'm not sure if that's a good reason one way or the other, but it's at
least plausible for how we got to where we are now.

-- Sean Silva


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