[llvm-dev] Need help with code generation

[James Molloy via llvm-dev]

Hi,

That's not the point at all. There are known unknowns and unknown unknowns;
creating known problems and then not at least marking them as such affects
people down the line.

Cheers,

James

On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 at 12:16 Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> On Mar 22, 2016 8:03 AM, "James Molloy" <james at jamesmolloy.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Rafael,
> >
> > I appreciate that your goals are to create a performant linker, quickly.
> I understand that and wouldn't want to slow you down unnecessarily,
> especially as I appreciate that I'm on the sidelines and not producing
> patches for LLD at the moment.
> >
> > I also appreciate that LLD/ELF development has certainly picked up pace
> recently and we might actually have a functioning linker sometime soon.
> That is very exciting, and thankyou for all your work.
> >
> > My worry is that the technical debt accrued will have to be paid off by
> someone at some point. At some point, someone will have to come along and
> make LLD robust ("enough", for some definition), and the current decision
> will make that person's job much harder.
>
> Again: users *today* are less likely to see a crash in lld than llvm or
> clang and those are much larger code bases.
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
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