On 1 August 2016 at 17:40, Ed Maste wrote:
> Over the past year or so I have been investigating the state of LLVM's
> lld linker for use in the FreeBSD base system, to see if it could be
> used as FreeBSD's system linker.
A quick update: most of the required changes have now made it into
LLD, and
On 1 August 2016 at 17:40, Ed Maste wrote:
> Over the past year or so I have been investigating the state of LLVM's
> lld linker for use in the FreeBSD base system, to see if it could be
> used as FreeBSD's system linker.
>
> ...
> There are a few features used by the FreeBSD base system that lld
On 2 Aug 2016, at 05:19, Ed Maste wrote:
>
>>> 6. Request ports exp-runs and issue a call for testing with 3rd party
>>> software. Fix issues found during this process.
>>
>> Experience suggests this may be the long poll :)
>
> Indeed, and that's a big part of my motivation for trying to make l
>> Generally, I like it though. My concerns are mostly with ports and gcc plans.
>> Though it isn't coupled to gcc, I'd suggest that we want to have a joint plan
>> for both before we get out the axes. Note this is purely a timing argument,
>> not whether to get them out, just when :)
>
> Yes, full
For some reason Warner's email didn't make it to me, but I spotted it
in the list archive.
Warner writes:
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
>> -N/--omagic, used by some boot loader components. We can achieve the
>> same effect with a linker script.
>
> Agreed. Or objcopy even.
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Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com wrote on Aug 1 22:27:19 UTC 2016 :
> On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
>
> > There is (some) support for mips and powerpc in lld, but I'm not sure
> > how well tested it is. RISC-V is not yet supported but there is a
> > desire to have a full LLVM-base
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Ed Maste wrote:
> -N/--omagic, used by some boot loader components. We can achieve the
> same effect with a linker script.
Agreed. Or objcopy even.
> 2. Add the bmake build infrastructure, installing as /usr/bin/ld.lld
> on the same architectures that use Clang (a
