[LLVMdev] [lld] multithread options

[Michael Spencer]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 3:42 PM, Shankar Easwaran
<shankare at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The gold linker has these options to specify how threads would be used by
> the linker. I am not sure what these options are for but I think its for
> debugging the linker, maybe.
>
> Are we planning to support these options ?

No. We can accept them, but we shouldn't implement them.

I'd be ok with --no-threads if we actually need it, but now is not that time.

- Michael Spencer

>
> <snip from manpage>
>        --threads
>               Run the linker multi-threaded
>
>        --no-threads
>               Do not run the linker multi-threaded
>
>        --thread-count COUNT
>               Number of threads to use
>
>        --thread-count-initial COUNT
>               Number of threads to use in initial pass
>
>        --thread-count-middle COUNT Number of threads to use in middle pass
>
>        --thread-count-final COUNT
>               Number of threads to use in final pass
>
> <snip>
>
> Shankar Easwaran
>