[LLVMdev] Should llvm include a linker?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

30.01.2015, 12:12, "David Chisnall" <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk>:
> On 29 Jan 2015, at 19:05, Greg Fitzgerald <garious at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I'd think you'd see value when new languages get off the ground faster
>>  because they don't need to think about linking.  Dealing with all the
>>  subtle differences between the various system linkers is no fun.
>>  Maybe that's not a ton of value, but as I mentioned, the integration
>>  is not a ton of work either.
>
> I think that you're conflating two issues:
>
> - Should there be a set of libraries that allow language developers to turn IR into executables / shared libraries easily?
>
> - Should these libraries be part of the core LLVM repository?
>
> I don't think anyone will disagree with the first one.  I believe that lld aims to provide such libraries and I hope to be able to use them.

IMO, such "set of libraries that allow language developers to turn IR into executables / shared libraries easily" would be more useful if it could use system linker.


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Regards,
Konstantin