jhuber6 wrote:

> The command-line argument handling is not related to 
> [PE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable)/COFF, but to 
> Microsoft's `link.exe` command line interface, for instance 
> [`/libpath:`](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/libpath-additional-libpath?view=msvc-170).
>  `/usr/bin/lld-link` is a `link.exe`-compatible interface for lld with an 
> appropriate default triple, like `clang-cl` is for `clang`. IIRC, `lld` 
> choses its command-line interface based on the `argv[0]` name, so should 
> clang-linker-wrapper when passed `--linker-path=/usr/bin/lld-link` instead of 
> `--linker-path=/usr/bin/lld`, but both should be able to generate PE files.
> 
> That is, this patch is not necessarily wrong, but the commit message and "// 
> COFF-style linker options." should refer to the command line interface 
> instead.

I changed the title, realistically I could probably try to separate these more 
logically, but I think it's easier to just handle them both independently but 
identically in the logic.

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/72889
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