[LLVMdev] llvm-link Patch

[Rafael Ávila de Espíndola]

On 11-07-30 11:56 PM, Gregory Malecha wrote:
> For my application it is important that I get bit code out the other
> end and I couldn't get the linux linker to link llvm. Is there a way
> to do this with other tools? I noticed a TODO in the llvm-link.cpp
> file that said that this should be done so I figured that that would
> be the right place to do it.

The gold plugin can do this. The same plugin should also work with
recent versions of the regular gnu linker. See

http://llvm.org/docs/GoldPlugin.html

for general instructions. To write a bc file the plugin option you
want is emit-llvm. 

Cheers,
Rafael