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Add --bp-compression-sort-section=<glob>[=<layout_priority>[=<match_priority>]] to let users split input sections into multiple compression groups, run balanced partitioning independently per group, and leave out sections that are poor candidates for BP. This replaces the old coarse --bp-compression-sort with a more explicit, user-controlled one. In ELF, the glob matches input section names (.text.unlikely.cold1). In Mach-O, it matches the concatenated segment+section name (__TEXT__text). layout_priority controls group placement in the final layout. match_priority resolves conflicts when multiple globs match the same section: explicit priority beats positional matching, and among positional specs the last match wins. A CRTP hook getCompressionSubgroupKey() allows backends to further subdivide glob groups into independent BP instances. This allows Mach-O backend to separate cold functions via N_COLD_FUNC in the future. The deprecated --bp-compression-sort option keeps its existing function/data behavior by assigning sections to fixed legacy groups.
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.
It is hosted at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz
The current sha256 is 10eec685463d5a8bbf08d77f4ca96282161d396c65bd97dc99dbde644a31610f.