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

[Eric Christopher]

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> We discussed this internally and changed minds a few times. The debate
> isn’t settled and I am still open to opinions (but I will stop changing my
> code coding conventions back and forth until we reach an agreement :-)). My
> current take on it is that if the tool end up as just a thin wrapper around
> libDebugInfo (+ maybe some other libs depending on how we do the
> streaming), then there is little point in hosting it with lld. As a matter
> of fact, the tool doesn’t use lld concepts at all and I’m pretty confident
> that there would be zero code sharing with lld.
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> Moreover, it is our long term goal to integrate the functionality in lld
> (by linking lld with the library that provides the functionality), but
> today the linker never calls dsymutil. The clang driver does call it on
> darwin platforms when it generates temporary object files though, which IMO
> is another argument for having the utility hosted in LLVM proper.
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Seems like a good plan.

-eric


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