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Thank you for starting the discussion thread. In general I'm in favor of the proposal. Defining a generic way to convey some information from the compiler to the linker is useful, and it looks like it is just a historical reason that the ELF lacks the feature at the moment. This is a scenario in which the feature is useful: when you include math.h, a compiler (which is driven by some pragma)

Hello all, There was some interest from a number of a few people about adding support for embedded linker options to ELF. This would be an extension that requires linker support to actually work, but has significant prior art with PE/COFF as well as MachO both having support for this. The desire here is to actually add support to LLVM to pass along the necessary information into the object

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