The new Darwin backend for LLD is now able to link reasonably large
real-world programs on x86_64. For instance, we have achieved
self-hosting for the X86_64 target, where all LLD tests pass when
building lld with itself on macOS. As such, we would like to make it the
default back-end.
The new port is now named `ld64.lld`, and the old port remains
accessible as `ld64.lld.darwinold`
This [annoucement email][1] has some context. (But note that, unlike
what the email says, we are no longer doing this as part of the LLVM 12
branch cut -- instead we will go into LLVM 13.)
Numerous mechanical test changes were required to make this change; in
the interest of creating something that's reviewable on Phabricator,
I've split out the boring changes into a separate diff (D95905). I plan to
merge its contents with those in this diff before landing.
(@gkm made the original draft of this diff, and he has agreed to let me
take over.)
[1]: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-January/147665.html
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95204
If you have the string /usr/bin, prior to this patch it would not
be quoted by our YAML serializer. But a string like C:\src would
be, due to the presence of a backslash. This makes the quoting
rules of basically every single file path different depending on
the path syntax (posix vs. Windows).
While technically not required by the YAML specification to quote
forward slashes, when the behavior of paths is inconsistent it
makes it difficult to portably write FileCheck lines that will
work with either kind of path.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53169
llvm-svn: 344359
This reverts commit b86c16ad8c97dadc1f529da72a5bb74e9eaed344.
This is being reverted because I forgot to write a useful
commit message, so I'm going to resubmit it with an actual
commit message.
llvm-svn: 344358
Jez Ng