[LLVMdev] [lld] Linker script findings.

[Shankar Easwaran]

Hi Sean,

The hook to add symbols into the Reader is through Writer->addFiles 
function. I think still the linker script should be parsed by Writer.

Also the linker script functionality is only needed by ELF and not 
anything else. It should be contained only within ELF.

Thanks

Shankar Easwaran

On 1/6/2013 2:05 PM, Sean Silva wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Shankar Easwaran
> <shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:
>> 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.
> So, looking into it a bit, I think that ELFLayoutOptions is not the
> right place to parse the linker script. From what I can tell, it has
> to be parsed during argument processing. As Nick pointed out, most of
> the linker script stuff can be handled during the final writing stage,
> but since the script can define symbols, it has to be parsed earlier.
> Also, Nick's perspective was that "the linker scripts and the command
> line arguments should all be parsed into one set of "options" to the
> ELF Writer".
>
> -- Sean Silva
>
>


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