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These symbols describe a property of a linkage unit, so it seems reasonable to limit their visibility to the linkage unit. Furthermore the use cases I am aware of do not require more than hidden visibility. This is a departure from the behavior of the bfd and gold linkers. However, it is unclear that the decision to give these symbols default visibility in those linkers was made deliberately. The __start_*/__stop_* feature was added to the bfd linker in 1994 [1], while the visibility feature was added about five years later [2], so it may have been that the visibility of these symbols was not considered. The feature was implemented in gold [3] in the same way; the behavior may have simply been copied from bfd. The only related discussion I could find on the binutils mailing list [4] was a user issue which would most likely not have occurred if the symbols had hidden visibility. [1] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=5efddb2e7c3229b569a862205f61d42860af678b [2] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=0fc731e447cd01e7fc35197b487ff0e4fd25afca [3] https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=bfd58944a64b0997a310b95fbe0423338961e71c [4] https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2014-05/msg00011.html Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19024 llvm-svn: 266121 |
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README.md
LLVM Linker (lld)
This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.
lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.