Re: April 2017 update on using LLVM's lld linker in the FreeBSD base system

2017-04-05 Thread Ed Maste
On 5 April 2017 at 16:09, Dimitry Andric wrote: > > Note that as of r316432, all of the above is also available in the > stable/11 branch. However some of the changes to FreeBSD haven't yet been merged to stable/11, and it's probably not possible to build world + kernel with LLD (via WITH_LLD_IS_

Re: April 2017 update on using LLVM's lld linker in the FreeBSD base system

2017-04-05 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 5 Apr 2017, at 16:59, Ed Maste wrote: > > Here's a fresh update on LLVM's LLD linker in the base system, > referencing the plan originally posted at the beginning of 2016. This > work is primarily taking place on amd64 right now, and unless > otherwise noted these results apply to amd64. > >

April 2017 update on using LLVM's lld linker in the FreeBSD base system

2017-04-05 Thread Ed Maste
Here's a fresh update on LLVM's LLD linker in the base system, referencing the plan originally posted at the beginning of 2016. This work is primarily taking place on amd64 right now, and unless otherwise noted these results apply to amd64. First, the completed items: > 1. Update lld along with t