History

Rui Ueyama 52c7c5fa3e Group members to match a comment. NFC. llvm-svn: 257218		2016-01-08 22:20:00 +00:00
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CMakeLists.txt	Set the folder for libraries to 'lld libraries'. NFC.	2016-01-07 00:14:04 +00:00
Config.h	Add comments.	2016-01-05 17:55:05 +00:00
Driver.cpp	ELF: Split LinkerDriver::createFiles. NFC.	2016-01-07 17:54:19 +00:00
Driver.h	ELF: Make private functions private.	2016-01-07 17:54:21 +00:00
DriverUtils.cpp	Remove unnecessary `lld::`.	2016-01-06 20:11:55 +00:00
Error.cpp	[ELF2] Output of all unknown arguments instead of only one.	2015-09-24 18:55:33 +00:00
Error.h	[ELF2] Output of all unknown arguments instead of only one.	2015-09-24 18:55:33 +00:00
InputFiles.cpp	Simplify MipsReginfoInputSection.	2016-01-06 22:42:43 +00:00
InputFiles.h	Rename GroupEntryType -> uint32_X.	2016-01-06 20:30:02 +00:00
InputSection.cpp	ELF: Remove dead code.	2016-01-08 20:11:47 +00:00
InputSection.h	Simplify MipsReginfoInputSection.	2016-01-06 22:42:43 +00:00
LinkerScript.cpp	Remove unnecessary `lld::`.	2016-01-06 20:11:55 +00:00
MarkLive.cpp	Remove unnecessary `lld::`.	2016-01-06 20:11:55 +00:00
Options.td	ELF: Implement --wrap.	2016-01-07 17:20:07 +00:00
OutputSections.cpp	Revert "Remove unnecessary type casts."	2016-01-07 20:53:30 +00:00
OutputSections.h	ELF: Improve performance of string table construction.	2016-01-07 02:35:32 +00:00
README.md	[README] Update to reflect the new world order.	2015-12-24 10:03:46 +00:00
SymbolTable.cpp	Use shorter name. NFC.	2016-01-08 22:17:42 +00:00
SymbolTable.h	Group members to match a comment. NFC.	2016-01-08 22:20:00 +00:00
Symbols.cpp	Remove unnecessary `lld::`.	2016-01-06 20:11:55 +00:00
Symbols.h	ELF: Implement --wrap.	2016-01-07 17:20:07 +00:00
Target.cpp	ELF: Remove dead code.	2016-01-08 20:11:47 +00:00
Target.h	ELF: Remove dead code.	2016-01-08 20:11:47 +00:00
Writer.cpp	ELF: Remove SIZE relocs from isRelRelative.	2016-01-08 03:25:26 +00:00
Writer.h	ELF2: Implement --gc-sections.	2015-10-22 18:49:53 +00:00

README.md

The New ELF Linker

This directory contains a port of the new PE/COFF linker for ELF.

Overall Design

See COFF/README.md for details on the design. Note that unlike COFF, we do not distinguish chunks from input sections; they are merged together.

Capabilities

This linker can link LLVM and Clang on Linux/x86-64 or FreeBSD/x86-64 "Hello world" can be linked on Linux/PPC64 and on Linux/AArch64 or FreeBSD/AArch64.

Performance

Achieving good performance is one of our goals. It's too early to reach a conclusion, but we are optimistic about that as it currently seems to be faster than GNU gold. It will be interesting to compare when we are close to feature parity.