[PATCH] D116484: [lld][MinGW] Ignore `--[no-]as-neeed` flags in MinGW driver

Sun Jan 2 13:56:36 PST 2022

mstorsjo added a comment.

In D116484#3216485 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D116484#3216485>, @mstorsjo wrote:

> In D116484#3216409 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D116484#3216409>, @MaskRay wrote:
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>> Unless there are motivating examples that some options are incorrectly used in a prevailing way, it doesn't seem right to ignore options from another binary format which cannot be properly modeled.
>
> As linking against DLL import libraries kinda works like `--as-needed` (only ending up with a runtime dependency if symbols actually are referenced), would you consider accepting `--as-needed` but omitting `--no-as-needed`?

Also, feel free to join in on the discsussion at https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/52947.

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