[PATCH] D30321: Mention FreeBSD ports status and wordsmithing.
Rui Ueyama via Phabricator via llvm-commits
llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Feb 24 11:06:44 PST 2017
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Closed by commit rL296157: Mention FreeBSD ports status and wordsmithing. (authored by ruiu).
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https://reviews.llvm.org/D30321?vs=89604&id=89699#toc
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https://reviews.llvm.org/D30321
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lld/trunk/docs/index.rst
Index: lld/trunk/docs/index.rst
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--- lld/trunk/docs/index.rst
+++ lld/trunk/docs/index.rst
@@ -17,13 +17,16 @@
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- LLD is a drop-in replacement for the GNU linkers. That accepts the
- same command line arguments and linker scripts as GNU. Although our
- linker is relatively new and still in active development, that is
- already able to link the entire FreeBSD/amd64 base system including
- the kernel. We are currently working closely with the FreeBSD
- project to make LLD default system linker in future versions of the
- operating system, so we are serious about addressing compatibility
- issues.
+ same command line arguments and linker scripts as GNU.
+
+ We are currently working closely with the FreeBSD project to make
+ LLD default system linker in future versions of the operating
+ system, so we are serious about addressing compatibility issues. As
+ of February 2017, LLD is able to link the entire FreeBSD/amd64 base
+ system including the kernel. With a few work-in-progress patches it
+ can link approximately 95% of the ports collection on AMD64. For the
+ details, see `FreeBSD quarterly status report
+ <https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2016-10-2016-12.html#Using-LLVM%27s-LLD-Linker-as-FreeBSD%27s-System-Linker>`.
- LLD is very fast. When you link a large program on a multicore
machine, you can expect that LLD runs more than twice as fast as GNU
@@ -127,7 +130,8 @@
- July 2016: Started working on improving the linker script support.
- December 2016: Succeeded to build the entire FreeBSD base system
- including the kernel. We had widen the gap against the GNU linkers.
+ including the kernel. We had widen the performance gap against the
+ GNU linkers.
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