[PATCH] D95727: llvm-shlib: Create object libraries for each component and link against them

[Fangrui Song via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

MaskRay added a comment.

> In the case where only libLLVM.so is built (i.e. ninja LLVM) this eliminates 150 linker jobs.

Do you mean ar/llvm-ar?

> It does, unless you use -Wl,--gc-sections, that's one of the downsides of using object libraries over archives.

Most non-SHF_ALLOC sections cannot be GCed.

If we want to save the copy/paste work done by ar/llvm-ar, can we use thin archives?


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