[LLVMdev] Status of llvm-ld

[David Sehr]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the update.  As you know, we're trying to build a phase that
looks like the user's platform linker, so we'll probably need all the flag
support eventually.  And although it's hotly debated occasionally (:-)), we
probably will want the ability to link with native code also.  Both of these
lean in favor of gold/plugin.

Thanks again,

David

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:

>
> On Mar 30, 2011, at 11:08 AM, David Sehr wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > As a part of the PNaCl project we're doing some investigations into how
> we do linking, and have started looking at llvm-ld.  Several of us have
> heard that this tool is no longer supported.  Could someone please clarify?
>
> Hi David,
>
> It is supported and in use by many projects.  Most people who care about
> LTO have switched to native linker plugins: either liblto (on the mac) or
> the gold plugin.  That said, llvm-link and llvm-ld continue to work as they
> always have.  llvm-ld's major limitation is that it doesn't implement all
> the linker flags that various system ld's do.
>
> -Chris
>
>
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