[LLVMdev] [lld] Linker script findings.

[Sean Silva]

On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Shankar Easwaran
<shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Linker scripts also use a wide variety of keywords like :-
>
> 1) SORT
> 2) ALIGN
> 3) OVERLAY

As I mentioned in the OP, I tried to focus the description on what
functionality the LLD API will need to expose in order to correctly
implement linker scripts, rather than to describe the language itself.
All relevant aspects of linker scripts should be implementable in
terms of the primitive functionality I described (although SORT may
benefit performance-wise from special handling deeper inside LLD).

> You might want to look at the ELFLayout changes to see what functionality is
> missing from that.
>
> The ELFLayoutOptions has a hook into reading the Linker script which needs
> to be implemented.

Thanks for the pointers, I'll take a look.

-- Sean Silva