[llvm-dev] LLD status update and performance chart

[David Chisnall via llvm-dev]

On 12 Dec 2016, at 03:39, Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
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> LLD's driver currently takes only a command line argument strings, so you need to write ELF files to a filesystem and read them back at the moment.
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> Theoretically, we could accept a list of command line strings and MemoryBuffer objects (instead of filenames) so that we can link in-memory ELF object files. Adding that feature shouldn't be hard.

It would be nice to have a similar interface to the one in libclang, where the driver is given a map that substitutes in-memory objects for specific files, so that the same command line can be used whether the inputs are on disk or in memory.

David