[LLVMdev] llvm-link deprecated in favor of gold plugin?

[Teresa Johnson]

I don't recall hitting that but I am using a modified version of
llvm-lto and the linking code to work on an LTO-related prototype (I
find llvm-lto is easier than using the linker plugin for testing). My
source code bits are also a little stale though.

But llvm-lto is generally just a wrapper around the code that does the
linking, which is shared with the gold plugin, and is where that
assert comes from. So I am not sure why it would give an error like
that assuming these are the same bitcode files you can successfully
feed into an LTO link using gold.

Teresa

On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Russell Wallace
<russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ah! Okay. A quick test of llvm-lto gets an error:
>
> llvm-lto: error adding file 'main.bc': Linking COMDATs named '
> ??_7_Iostream_error_category at std@@6B@': invalid selection kinds!
>
> Would it be the case that llvm-lto is also deprecated in favor of the gold
> plugin?
>
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson at google.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> LTOCodeGenerator is used by the llvm-lto tool, which is a standalone
>> tool for doing LTO links.
>>
>> Teresa
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Russell Wallace
>> <russell.wallace at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Following on from my last question, based on such information as I've
>> > been
>> > able to find on Google, I get the impression llvm-link is effectively
>> > deprecated / not actively maintained, because the focus of whole-program
>> > optimization is now on the gold plugin. Is that the case, or am I
>> > missing
>> > something?
>> >
>> > Running searches over the source tree, it seems the Linker class that
>> > actually implements the functionality of llvm-link is not used by any
>> > other
>> > modules except LTOCodeGenerator. I couldn't find anything referencing
>> > LTOCodeGenerator. Does the gold plugin or anything else use
>> > LTOCodeGenerator?
>> >
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