Hello;
El 03/05/2013 5:30 a. m., Dimitry Andric escribió:
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2.) Alternative linkers
Is there a document available detailing the current feasible linkers
and their status?
e.g., is it possible to build a working system with mclinker, gold,
etc., and what is the
process for accomplishing this? I'm willing to write up detailed
guides if someone
will provide the broad strokes of how to test this out.
I am not aware of any documentation, but there have been a few efforts,
by different people. In all cases, it seems to be highly experimental,
and a lot of things might still be broken. The most interesting
challenge is linking the kernel, of course. And custom linker scripts,
written specifically for GNU ld.
FWIW, The Solaris people have lived with the problem of supporting
alternative linkers for a while and they came up with LD_ALTEXEC:
http://blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/03/using-the-gnu-ld-linker-on-solaris/
There even appears to be a proof-of-concept patch for binutils:
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13863
Again FWIW, one of our linker experts says the patch is ugly but I
wouldn't spend time beautifying GNU ld anyways ;).
4.) lldb status
Is this described in detail anywhere?
I heard good things about it from a Mac developer but I haven't tried
it. We should look at it.
We should also start considering merging the elftoolchain.
Regards,
Pedro.
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