MCLinker and llvm-config

[David Chisnall]

On 24 Jul 2012, at 10:39, Erik Cederstrand wrote:

> Btw, do you guys have any plans for a GNU ld replacement? Progress on the more "official" lld (http://lld.llvm.org/) seems slow, and MCLinker more promising. Hence my feeble attempts :-)

Most of the progress in lld is not in lld itself, but in the underlying frameworks.  The tool is expected to be a fairly thin wrapper.  The Object code in the main llvm repository is where the real work happens.

MCLinker is likely a dead end.  It was intended as a quick-and-dirty hack to get a working linker for a small subset of the problem, with no thought as to how to solve the general case.

David