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In many situations, we don't want to exit at the first error even in the process model. For example, it is better to report all undefined symbols rather than reporting the first one that the linker picked up randomly. In order to handle such errors, we don't need to wrap everything with ErrorOr (thanks for David Blaikie for pointing this out!) Instead, we can set a flag to record the fact that we found an error and keep it going until it reaches a reasonable checkpoint. This idea should be applicable to other places. For example, we can ignore broken relocations and check for errors after visiting all relocs. In this patch, I rename error to fatal, and introduce another version of error which doesn't call exit. That function instead sets HasError to true. Once HasError becomes true, it stays true, so that we know that there was an error if it is true. I think introducing a non-noreturn error reporting function is by itself a good idea, and it looks to me that this also provides a gradual path towards lld-as-a-library (or at least embed-lld-to-your-program) without sacrificing code readability with lots of ErrorOr's. http://reviews.llvm.org/D16641 llvm-svn: 259069
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.