[llvm-dev] Please dogfood LLD

[Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:07 PM, Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis at xs4all.nl>
wrote:

> > Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:39:22 -0700
> > From: Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > LLVM 4.0.0 is out, and I can say that LLD/ELF is now ready for production
> > use at least for x86-64 (and probably for AArch64 and MIPS). I believe
> > you've heard a few good news about the linker -- it just works
> > <http://lld.llvm.org/#features> and is very fast
> > <http://lld.llvm.org/#performance>, clean, compact and supported by the
> > active community. I don't think I need to reiterate why having a good
> > linker is important for us as the LLVM community.
>
> FWIW, we're using lld as the system linker (and clang as the system
> compiler) on the upcoming OpenBSD/arm64.  The system is self-hosting
> and we've had to fix only a couple of small things in the way we use
> the linker to get to this point.  All security-related features we
> rely on (-pie, -static -pie, W^X, .openbsd.randomdata) seem to work
> just fine.  So I'd say AArch64 is defenitely there.
>

Out of curiosity, what's the story about architectures other than AArch64?
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