2015-07-25 05:03:07 +08:00
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The New ELF Linker
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This directory contains a port of the new PE/COFF linker for ELF.
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Overall Design
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2015-10-07 03:21:13 +08:00
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See COFF/README.md for details on the design. Note that unlike COFF, we do not
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distinguish chunks from input sections; they are merged together.
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Capabilities
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2015-10-14 02:55:59 +08:00
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This linker can link LLVM and Clang on Linux/x86-64 or FreeBSD/x86-64
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with -LLVM_ENABLE_THREADS=OFF. "Hello world" can be linked on Linux/PPC64.
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2015-10-14 05:28:02 +08:00
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Performance
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Achieving good performance is one of our goals. It's too early to reach a
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conclusion, but we are optimistic about that as it currently seems to be faster
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than GNU gold. It will be interesting to compare when we are close to feature
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parity.
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