ld on arm64
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Authored by emaste on Sep 2 2016, 5:24 PM.

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We do not have an in-tree binutils linker on arm64, so this should allow us to at least build some software to facilitate bootstrapping (e.g. lld should be able to link itself, Clang/LLVM, GNU binutils).

Posting for discussion. I wouldn't commit this until after the clang390-import branch is merged to head, and further testing.

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emaste updated this revision to Diff 19981.Sep 2 2016, 5:24 PM

emaste retitled this revision from to install lld as /usr/bin/ld on arm64.

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Does it work as ld? When I tried it required you to execute it as ld.lld

In D7762#161070, @andrew wrote:

Does it work as ld? When I tried it required you to execute it as ld.lld

For now (in the version in clang390-import) I've removed all of the non-GNU linker emulation and changed main to just return !elf::link(Args); so it always behaves as GNU ld.