[PATCH] D87272: [lld] Buffer writes when composing a single diagnostic

[Fangrui Song via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

MaskRay added a comment.

In D87272#2295704 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D87272#2295704>, @dblaikie wrote:

> Not sure I follow - the patch description seems to be quite focussed on the performance implications of this change - it sounds like, reading the patch description/commit message that that is the motivation.
>
> Oh, perhaps I see another reason that might be less nuanced: This will probably break color printing on Windows when using the normal Windows color API - because it's a stateful API, not something that can be encoded in the stream: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/d3f6972abb9c0ac06ddabf61697754c3c6f5d11b/llvm/lib/Support/raw_ostream.cpp#L513

I find another reason, probably still weak: I want to check a large binary with many out of range relocations. lld will emit a large number of warnings (if --noinhibit-exec). This patch can make it faster.


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