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
Summary:
Any invocation of `clang -fuse-ld=lld` that results in a link command
on a macOS host currently fails, because the Darwin lld driver does not
recognize the `-lto_library` option that Clang passes it. Fix the error
by having the Darwin driver ignore the option.
The Clang driver's macOS toolchain is written such that it will always
pass the `-lto_library` option to the linker invocation on a macOS host.
And although the DarwinLdDriver is written to ignore any unknown arguments,
because `-lto_library` begins with `-l`, the DarwinLdDriver interprets it
as a library search command, for a library named "to_library". When the
DarwinLdDriver is unable to find a library specified via `-l`, it exits
with a hard error. This causes any invocation of `clang -fuse-ld=lld`
that results in a link command on a macOS host to fail with an error.
To fix the issue, I considered two alternatives:
1. Modify the Clang Darwin toolchain to only pass `-lto_library` if lld
is *not* being used. lld doesn't support LTO on Darwin anyway, so it
can't use the option. However, I opted against this because, if and
when lld *does* support LTO on Darwin, I'll have to make another
commit to Clang in order to get it to pass the option to lld again.
2. Modify the Darwin lld driver to ignore the `-lto_library` option.
Just in case users may take this to mean LTO is supported, I also
added a warning. If and when lld supports LTO on Darwin, the same
commit that adds support for this option can remove the warning.
Option (2) seemed better to me, and is the rationale behind this commit.
Test Plan: check-lld
Reviewers: ruiu, smeenai, pcc
Reviewed By: smeenai
Subscribers: JDevlieghere, pcc, mehdi_amini, inglorion, steven_wu, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47994
llvm-svn: 334641
Jez Ng