I believe all three linkers (bfd, gold and lld) can currently do LTO on LLVM bitcode. Naively I'd assume getting cross-compilation-unit optimization combining rust and clang compile units is more of a build system issue than a linker one.
-Jeff On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 2:16 AM, Henri Sivonen <hsivo...@hsivonen.fi> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:08 AM, Sylvestre Ledru <sylves...@mozilla.com> > wrote: >> Thanks to bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1336978, it >> is now possible to link with LLD (the linker from the LLVM toolchain) >> on Linux instead of bfd or gold. > > Great news. Thank you! > > Does this enable lld to ingest object files that contain LLVM bitcode > instead of target machine code and to perform cross-compilation-unit > optimization? How far are we from cross-compilation-unit optimization > when some compilation units come from clang and some from rustc? > > -- > Henri Sivonen > hsivo...@hsivonen.fi > https://hsivonen.fi/ > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
