mstorsjo added a comment.

In D154176#4466186 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D154176#4466186>, @mstorsjo wrote:

> Ok, thanks for clarifying. However I still don’t understand the “why” aspect 
> here. You’re writing
>
>> so that lld specific flags can be append before inputs
>
> Are you planning on adding such flags in a later patch, position dependent 
> flags that need to be supplied before input files?
>
> Or does the change in order of command line arguments have an effect on the 
> behavior of the linker in this case?

Ok, on second thought, I guess that parsing the vfsoverlay option before the 
inputs makes it have an effect where it didn’t before. Is that right? (Most 
flags in lld aren’t very order dependent since it just checks for any 
occurrence of a flag anywhere among the arguments.)


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