[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev]

2016/03/21 22:23 "Rafael Espíndola" <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>:
>
> 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.

I think this point is worth emphasizing. LLD is actually much faster than
gold.

> Cheers,
> Rafael
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