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The ELF and COFF Linkers The ELF and COFF Linkers
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We started rewriting the ELF (Unix) and COFF (Windows) linkers in May 2015.
Since then, we have been making a steady progress towards providing
drop-in replacements for the system linkers.
Currently, the Windows support is mostly complete and is about 2x faster
than the linker that comes as a part of Micrsoft Visual Studio toolchain.
The ELF support is in progress and is able to link large programs
such as Clang or LLD itself. Unless your program depends on linker scripts,
you can expect it to be linkable with LLD.
It is currently about 1.2x to 2x faster than GNU gold linker.
We aim to make it a drop-in replacement for the GNU linker.
We expect that FreeBSD is going to be the first large system
to adopt LLD as the system linker.
We are working on it in collaboration with the FreeBSD project.
The linkers are notably small; as of October 2016,
the COFF linker is about 7k lines and the ELF linker is about 18k lines,
while gold is 165K lines.
The linkers are designed to be as fast and simple as possible.
Because it is simple, it is easy to extend to support new features.
It already supports several advanced features such section garbage
collection and identical code folding.
The COFF linker supports i386, x86-64 and ARM. The ELF linker supports
i386, x86-64, x32, MIPS32, MIPS64, PowerPC, AMDGPU, ARM and Aarch64,
although the quality varies depending on platform. By default, LLD
provides support for all targets because the amount of code we have for
each target is so small. We do not even provide a way to disable
targets at compile time.
There are a few key design choices that we made to achieve these goals.
We will describe them in this document.
The ELF Linker as a Library The ELF Linker as a Library
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