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-r --gc-sections is usually not useful because it just makes intermediate output smaller. https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46700#c7 mentions a use case: validating the absence of undefined symbols ealier than in the final link. After D84129 (SHT_GROUP support in -r links), we can support -r --gc-sections without extra code. So let's allow it. Reviewed By: grimar, jhenderson Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D84131
LLVM Linker (lld)
This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.
lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.
Benchmarking
In order to make sure various developers can evaluate patches over the same tests, we create a collection of self contained programs.
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