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...implement it with a new .note section that other linkers and > old versions of LLD will know to ignore. > > On top of that, the generic ABI group has previously rejected proposals to > embed linker options in object files ( > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/iS_-m-X5ZwQ). > > Given how ELF has done things in the past, maybe the section name should > be ".note.autolink". We could also be like GCC and namespace our extensions > as ".note.LLVM.autolink", but maybe that's a step too far. > A .note section consists of a series of...

At Sony we offer autolinking as a feature in our ELF toolchain. We would like to see full support for this feature upstream as there is anecdotal evidence that it would find use beyond Sony. In general autolinking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-linking) allows developers to specify inputs to the linker in their source code. LLVM and Clang already have support for autolinking on ELF via