Is there a native linker in the roadmap so that there isn't a dependency on binutils? Is it considered out of scope? It seems to me that I saw mention of someone starting such a project a while ago. Did it ever get anywhere? Was there a particular reason why it wasn't folded into llvm as an official project? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20110924/79b856bd/attachment.html>
Hi Hans, There was a presentation at last year's DevMeeting. See http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/ and look for the presentation on Object Files by Michael Spencer. As for the news, we haven't heard much here either. --Sam>________________________________ >From: Hans Stimer <hans.stimer at gmail.com> >To: LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu >Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 5:40 PM >Subject: [LLVMdev] Native linker > > >Is there a native linker in the roadmap so that there isn't a dependency on binutils? Is it considered out of scope? > > >It seems to me that I saw mention of someone starting such a project a while ago. Did it ever get anywhere? Was there a particular reason why it wasn't folded into llvm as an official project? >_______________________________________________ >LLVM Developers mailing list >LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu >http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev > > >
On Sep 24, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Samuel Crow wrote:>> From: Hans Stimer <hans.stimer at gmail.com> >> To: LLVMdev at cs.uiuc.edu >> Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 5:40 PM >> Subject: [LLVMdev] Native linker >> >> >> Is there a native linker in the roadmap so that there isn't a dependency on binutils? Is it considered out of scope? >> >> >> It seems to me that I saw mention of someone starting such a project a while ago. Did it ever get anywhere? Was there a particular reason why it wasn't folded into llvm as an official project? > > Hi Hans, > > There was a presentation at last year's DevMeeting. See http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/ and look for the presentation on Object Files by Michael Spencer. As for the news, we haven't heard much here either.There was also something mentioned on-list very recently. On Sep 21, 2011, at 4:58 PM, C. Bergström wrote:> On 09/22/11 04:33 AM, David Chisnall wrote: >> So, we have all of the pieces for a completely open C++ stack and GNU ld is, I think, the last big stumbling block for a GPL-free FreeBSD 10. > PathScale is lining up the pieces to do part of the work for a linker, but not all of it. Someone @FBSD contacted me, but hasn't followed-up to figure out if our work will be beneficial to you guys at all.-- Marshall Marshall Clow Idio Software <mailto:mclow.lists at gmail.com> A.D. 1517: Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the church door and is promptly moderated down to (-1, Flamebait). -- Yu Suzuki
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Hans Stimer <hans.stimer at gmail.com> wrote:> Is there a native linker in the roadmap so that there isn't a dependency on > binutils? Is it considered out of scope? > It seems to me that I saw mention of someone starting such a project a while > ago. Did it ever get anywhere? Was there a particular reason why it wasn't > folded into llvm as an official project?I started working towards a binutils replacement last year. See the presentation Samuel mentioned and lib/Object. I have been working on other things since then, but I now will be putting a lot more time into it. - Michael Spencer