[LLVMdev] Reimplementing Darwin's dsymutil as an lld helper

[Shankar Easwaran]

On 11/7/2014 12:25 PM, Frédéric Riss wrote:
>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Shankar Easwaran <shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:
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>> Thanks for your reply, Fred.
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>> It might work better, if its in a form of an API. So that the linker could call an API instead of running a tool ?
> Yes, the long term goal would be to expose it as an API. The separate tool is just a first step. I can’t give you the exact shape of the API know, but basically the main entry point would be something like:
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> DwarfLinker::link(const DebugMap& map);
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> Where the DebugMap is a collection of object files containing debug info associated with symbol mappings. In the end the dsymutil utility should just be a thin command line wrapper around that.
Should this tool and the API exist as part of lld itself ? because 
linker is the only thing that calls it ?

Shankar Easwaran

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