[LLVMdev] New linker ownership

Davide Italiano dccitaliano at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 16:23:13 PDT 2015


On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com> wrote:
> The new linker is quickly becoming more than just an experiment. 64-bit COFF
> linker is mostly feature complete, and now we are having a direct
> translation of the COFF linker for ELF.
>
> Historically LLD has been suffered by over-designing and over-engineering. I
> don't want to repeat that again in the new codebase, so I'd like to be an
> owner of the new linkers (both for ELF and COFF), so that I'm responsible to
> ensure all patches are reviewed (whether pre-commit or post-commit) if
> submitted to one of ELF or COFF directories.
>
> Is this okay with you guys? If it sounds reasonable to you guys, I'll create
> an OWNERS file under the LLD top directory and add myself for ELF and COFF.

Glad to see you're taking ownership. Long overdue. +1 for me.



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