llvm-project/llvm/tools/gold
Zakk Chen ad5fad0ac5 [LTO] Suppress emission of empty combined module by default
Summary:
That unless the user requested an output object (--lto-obj-path), the an
unused empty combined module is not emitted.

This changed is helpful for some target (ex. RISCV-V) which encoded the
ABI info in IR module flags (target-abi). Empty unused module has no ABI
info so the linker would get the linking error during merging
incompatible ABIs.

Reviewers: tejohnson, espindola, MaskRay

Subscribers: emaste, inglorion, arichardson, hiraditya, simoncook, MaskRay, steven_wu, dexonsmith, PkmX, dang, lenary, s.egerton, luismarques, llvm-commits

Tags: #llvm

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D78988
2020-05-04 18:31:09 -07:00
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CMakeLists.txt cmake: Remove add_llvm_loadable_module() 2018-12-20 22:04:08 +00:00
README.txt
gold-plugin.cpp [LTO] Suppress emission of empty combined module by default 2020-05-04 18:31:09 -07:00
gold.exports

README.txt

The LLVM Gold LTO Plugin
========================

This directory contains a plugin that is designed to work with binutils
gold linker. At present time, this is not the default linker in
binutils, and the default build of gold does not support plugins.

See docs/GoldPlugin.html for complete build and usage instructions.

NOTE: libLTO and LLVMgold aren't built without PIC because they would fail
to link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined.
As an alternative to passing --enable-pic, you can use 'make ENABLE_PIC=1' in
your entire LLVM build.