[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-dev]

On 21 March 2016 at 17:20, James Molloy via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Rafael,
>
> How can a high quality product crash by design? I understand the lack of
> structured error handling, and I understand asserting (which in release mode
> would be silent) on internal errors. But on an input? How can an application
> be taken seriously when crashes are design features?
>
> And I certainly didn't see consensus or in fact the suggestion of this in
> the other thread, unless I glazed over an important part.
>

It can crash because .o files are not user input. They are generated.
To get one you need a broken assembler or a broken hardware.

Sorry if lld is not the linker you want, but that is the one we are writing.

As for how it will be taken seriously, well, we seem to be on good
track to be able to link freebsd and to do so faster than gold.

Cheers,
Rafael