[LLVMdev] [RFC] New ToolsSupport library for stuff that only tools need

[Rafael Espíndola]

On 10 November 2014 16:30, Pete Cooper <peter_cooper at apple.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 10, 2014, at 1:01 PM, Chris Bieneman <beanz at apple.com> wrote:
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> I’ve been playing around with trying to accomplish my goal without a new
> library and I think that while it isn’t impossible, it is nasty and not
> ideal.
>
> To recap, the goal I’m trying to accomplish is being able to build (from a
> single configure) LLVM libraries that exclude crash handler support
> (specifically the Darwin-specific abort and raise overrides), and LLVM tools
> which include that functionality.
>
> The simple naive solution to this would be to make those hooks implemented
> in the headers, and conditionally compile it based on whether you’re
> building for a tool or a library. Unfortunately this doesn’t really work in
> this case. Header implemented functions need to be weak so that the linker
> can properly resolve the duplicates. These symbols need to be strong so that
> they override the versions present in the C library. That means that the
> only way to do this in a header gets unwieldy because it would need to be a
> header that is included once and only once in a tool, otherwise you’ll fail
> linking.
>
> This just comes back to the ideal solution for this (to me) being separating
> out this functionality into a new library.
>
> Thoughts anyone?
>
> SGTM.  I’d prefer to avoid building bits I don’t need than relying on linker
> stripping anyway, so a separate library is the only way to achieve that too.

+1, lib/Support is in the critical path of a lot of builds.

Cheers,
Rafael