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> Regardless of any of that, given that TBD files _are_ an integral part of the apple platform, supporting them is certainly a necessity in order to have a working apple linker. So, if making LLD work for Apple/MachO is the justification for adding TBD support to LLVM, that seems self-evidently a reasonable thing to do. On the other hand, it looks like the LLD mach-o code is unmaintained

> On Apr 9, 2018, at 3:23 PM, James Y Knight via cfe-dev <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: > > I'm not really clear on the actual benefits of the TBD file, and why Apple migrated to them in the first place. Shouldn't a dynamic library containing only the relevant parts (e.g. the dynamic symbol table) be roughly comparable in size? And, much simpler to support? I assume

...MACH-O LLD: reviews.llvm.org/D35387 I don't fully understand how TBD or TAPI works, but I hope that it results in improvements to the MACH-O linker. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20180410/8d503873/attachment.html>