On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 8:03 AM, Ryan Lovelett via swift-dev < swift-dev@swift.org> wrote:
> On Sat, May 14, 2016, at 12:17 PM, William Dillon via swift-dev wrote: > > I'm in favor. The current disparate use of linkers overly complicates > > the build scripts, and given that BFD seems to be a liability, I think it > > makes sense to transition. In the interest of full disclosure, I don't > > fully understand all the implications of this change, especially on x86. > > > > - Will > > > > > On May 13, 2016, at 6:50 PM, Saleem Abdulrasool via swift-dev < > swift-dev@swift.org> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > On ARM targets, gold is already required due to a certain bugs in the > handling of relocations for those targets. > > > > > > For other targets, there was a bug exposed in the BFD linker (which is > believed to have been fixed in a newer release). > > > > > > Recently, another change seems to have exposed yet another issue with > linking on x86 targets. > > > > > > Given the frequency with which issues occurring with the BFD linker, > is it reasonable to say that building swift requires the gold linker? To > the previous three issues, I believe that two of them were worked around > with the approach of using gold. So, there is some precedent to that > approach. Furthermore, this idea has been brought up before. > > > > > > Im hoping that this can spark a thread which can come up to some > conclusion to whether it is reasonable to expect that the linux builds > would use gold for the foreseeable future. > > Count me in favor of this as well. Given the overall positive reaction, and no objections, Ive created https://github.com/apple/swift/pull/2609 to switch Linux over to gold by default on all the targets. > > > > > > -- > > > Saleem Abdulrasool > > > compnerd (at) compnerd (dot) org > > > _______________________________________________ > > > swift-dev mailing list > > > swift-dev@swift.org > > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > > swift-dev mailing list > > swift-dev@swift.org > > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev > _______________________________________________ > swift-dev mailing list > swift-dev@swift.org > https://lists.swift.org/mailman/listinfo/swift-dev > -- Saleem Abdulrasool compnerd (at) compnerd (dot) org
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