[PATCH] D81109: llvm-link: Add support for archive files as inputs.

Wed Jun 17 08:03:46 PDT 2020

jdoerfert added a comment.

In D81109#2097795 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D81109#2097795>, @JonChesterfield wrote:

> Where's the right place to document this new feature?
>
> It's occurred to me that people may want to use llvm-link as a drop in replacement for a partial link, and this patch implements the equivalent to --whole-archive. That is, we extract all the objects, not only the ones that match an unresolved symbol earlier in the link order.

That is how llvm-link always worked, I mean the "whole-archive" way, isn't it?

> That'll surprise some users so I think we should write down that this is the behaviour they'll get, and I'm not sure where.

LLVM-link documentation + Change Logs
@jsjodin ^

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