[PATCH] D66405: [llvm-ifs] llvm Interface Stubs merging + object file generation tool.

[Puyan Lotfi via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

plotfi added a comment.

In D66405#1634787 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D66405#1634787>, @MaskRay wrote:

> There is another tool `tools/llvm-elfabi` that does something very similar. (To be honest I don't quite get the point why that tool is required and why it has to be a llvm tool.) Nevertheless, it exists there, though not actively developed. Does this tool intend to replace/complement it?


There was extensive discussion on https://reviews.llvm.org/D60974. The main purpose for llvm-ifs is because llvm-elfapi primarily deals with elf, and because we specifically do not want the mergeable interface stubs format to be the tbe format. Ideally, when the elfabi support for generating ELF binaries is finally landed, llvm-ifs will simply generate tbe in memory to product the elf. Ideally we want something that can generate ELF or COFF etc, and this is outside of the scope of llvm-elfabi.


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