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

Fri Jan 14 05:52:44 PST 2022

bd1976llvm added a comment.

In D117284#3243370 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D117284#3243370>, @sbc100 wrote:

> In D117284#3243218 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D117284#3243218>, @bd1976llvm wrote:
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>> 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).
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> Isn't it already trivial to "repair" such libraries by running `ranlib` on them?

True. This has proved useful in the past in my world of proprietary toolchains - but in opensource if you have access to LLD then you also also have access to a ranlib that is aware of all the same file formats that LLD supports.

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