t-tye added a comment. In https://reviews.llvm.org/D53153#1288127, @rjmccall wrote:
> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D53153#1288112, @rjmccall wrote: > > > But do you want to support *dynamically* linking object files? Because > > that's what visibility is about. > > > To be specific, if you don't have multiple levels of linking — doing a slower > and relatively more expensive link to form a self-contained unit of code > distribution, then doing a faster link to form a runnable program from > multiple independently-distributed such units — then visibility isn't really > doing anything for you. Currently the AMDGPU code objects are fully linked dynamically loader shared libraries. They are not relocatable code objects. This allows fewer and cheaper relocations and a smaller (dynsym) symbol table for the runtime loader. https://reviews.llvm.org/D53153 _______________________________________________ cfe-commits mailing list cfe-commits@lists.llvm.org http://lists.llvm.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cfe-commits
