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Add more details about file formats. Fix whitespace. 

llvm-svn: 152939
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Nick Kledzik 2012-03-16 20:03:05 +00:00
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<h2 id="goals">Features and Goals</h2>
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<p><b>End-User Features:</b></p>
<p><b>End-User Features:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Compatible with existing linker options</li>
<li>Compatible with existing linker options</li>
<li>Reads standard Object Files (e.g. ELF, mach-o, PE/COFF)</li>
<li>Writes standard Executable Files (e.g. ELF, mach-o, PE)</li>
<li>Fast link times</li>
<li>Minimal memory use</li>
<li>Remove clang's reliance on "the system linker"</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Applications:</b></p>
<p><b>Applications:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Use the LLVM 'BSD' License</li>
<li>Modular design</li>
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<li>Easy to add new CPU support</li>
<li>Can be built as static tool or library</li>
</ul>
<p><b>Design and Implementation:</b></p>
<p><b>Design and Implementation:</b></p>
<ul>
<li>Extensive unit tests</li>
<li>Internal linker model can be dumped/read to textual format</li>
<li>Internal linker model can be dumped/read to new native format</li>
<li>Internal linker model can be dumped/read to new native format</li>
<li>Native format designed to be fast to read and write</li>
<li>Additional linking features can be plugged in as "passes"</li>
<li>OS specific and CPU specific code factored out</li>
</ul>
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<p>The fact that clang relies on whatever linker tool you happen to have
installed means that clang has been very conservative adopting features
which require a recent linker.</p>
installed means that clang has been very conservative adopting features
which require a recent linker.</p>
<p>In the same way that the MC layer of LLVM has removed clang's reliance
on the system assembler tool, the lld project will remove clang's reliance
on the system linker tool.</p>
on the system assembler tool, the lld project will remove clang's reliance
on the system linker tool.</p>
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