[LLVMdev] LLD: Removing Native file format?

[Rui Ueyama]

I sent a patch for review. I'll wait for a while, probably submit that
tomorrow.

On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Michael Spencer <bigcheesegs at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
> > I think I bought up this topic before, but I'd like to propose seriously
> > removing the Native file format from LLD this time.
> >
> > IIUC, the Native file format was designed to be the fastest on-memory or
> > on-disk file format for object files. The problem is that no one is
> working
> > on that. No LLVM tools can produce object files in the Native, thus the
> > feature of supporting the format is useless in the linker.
> >
> > I'm also skeptical about the very idea of defining a new file format
> since
> > existing file formats look to be good enough.
> >
> > It's maintenance cost is real. I needed to submit a few patches for the
> > Native format for global refactoring.
> >
> > Here I'm proposing removing the Native file format support from LLD
> unless
> > there's a person who's going to take the ownership of the feature and
> push
> > really hard to adopt the file format everywhere (not only in the linker).
> >
> > Opinions?
>
> I'm fine with it, we can add it back when lld is further along if needed.
>
> - Michael Spencer
>
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