[lld] r326459 - Where possible use --long-opt=value in lld man page

Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Mar 1 13:27:41 PST 2018


Ed Maste via llvm-commits <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> writes:

> On 1 March 2018 at 13:40, Ed Maste via llvm-commits
> <llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> Author: emaste
>> Date: Thu Mar  1 10:40:11 2018
>> New Revision: 326459
>>
>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=326459&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Where possible use --long-opt=value in lld man page
>>
>> We intend to maintain compatibility with GNU ld, and in the GNU world
>> long options are conventionally specified as --long-option=value. For
>> whatever reason GNU ld.bfd accepts both --long-option value and
>> --long-option=value, but documents the former.
>
> That should of course be "documents the latter."
>
> Long options also supported by bfd/gold, where lld does not accept the = form:
>
> --auxiliary value
> --dynamic-linker value
> --oformat format
> --section-start address
>
> lld-specific long options where = is not accepted:
>
> --lto-O opt-level
> --opt-remarks-filename file
> --symbol-ordering-file file
> --thinlto-cache-policy file

Please open a bug about it.

Thanks,
Rafael


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