[PATCH] D77346: [docs] Corrected inaccuracies in Common Problems section

Adrian Prantl via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Apr 10 15:04:37 PDT 2020


aprantl added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst:1115
+   This option defaults to Debug, but this causes higher memory usage during the
+   linking phase. So, you may wish to use the Release build type and to enable 
+   assertions. This may not be as easy to debug; however, this may be a good 
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This is only true for ELF targets (I don't know about COFF). In the Mach-O case (i.e., on Darwin/macOS) the presence of de bug info has zero effect on the linker performance, since the linker doesn't touch the debug info at all. Can we prefix that with `On Linux,` or something similar?


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