[LLVMdev] building whole-program bitcode with LLVM

[Rafael Espindola]

> Initially we had hoped simply to replace gcc, as, ld, etc. with their
> LLVM counterparts in the standard build systems, but we haven't been
> able to make that strategy work.  Several different approaches along
> these lines fail in various ways.  Some have recommended the Gold
> plugin, but it's not clear from the documentation that it does what
> we want, and we haven't been successful in installing it yet.

Right now it will produce a native object file, but it might be
possible to hack it
to dump an IL file on the side. It is in a good position to do so
since the linker
passes it all the IL files, including the ones that are inside archives.

> Thanks!
>
> -- Terence Kelly, HP Labs
>

Cheers,
-- 
Rafael Avila de Espindola

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