[PATCH] D109624: [clang] Make the driver not diagnose errors on nonexistent linker inputs

Sat Sep 11 10:30:39 PDT 2021

hans accepted this revision.
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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.

In D109624#2995336 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D109624#2995336>, @thakis wrote:

>> I wonder if there are deeper reasons for GCC and Clang's current behaviour than early diagnosis and slightly nicer error messages.
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> One easy way to find out is land this and if it breaks something, add a comment and a test for the next person :)
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>> Since cl.exe seems to match the behaviour your patch is switching to, maybe we should only do this in clang-cl mode?
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> Maybe! But the current behavior is arguably wrong for the `clang -fuse-ld=lld -Wl,-chroot,some/path /foo.o` case, so maybe we should try changing both for starters and then row back if needed?

Sounds good to me.

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