[PATCH] D117284: [ELF] Allow non-bitcode archive with an empty index

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bd1976llvm added a comment.

Another advantage is that this behaviour allows users to "repair" archives with incomplete symbol tables by stripping the symbol table (maybe someone has added both ET_RELs and bitcode objects to the same archive with an ar which ignored the bitcocde symbols).

We have had a similar  behaviour on PlayStation in our proprietary linker for many years without any reported problems. Given that, I think that we could enable this behaviour by default and add a command line option to revert to the current behaviour (--emulate-gnu-ld) to handle corner cases.


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