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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rui Ueyama 6872455c6d COFF: Make test commands shorter. NFC.
llvm-svn: 244227
2015-08-06 16:47:46 +00:00
Rui Ueyama 251b0e268b COFF: Remove the old COFF linker and make link an alias to link2.
It's time to remove old COFF linker because the new one is now complete.

llvm-svn: 244226
2015-08-06 16:19:35 +00:00
Rui Ueyama 3ee0fe4c2c COFF: Implement subsystem inference.
llvm-svn: 238668
2015-05-31 03:55:46 +00:00
Rui Ueyama 411c636081 COFF: Add a new PE/COFF port.
This is an initial patch for a section-based COFF linker.

The patch has 2300 lines of code including comments and blank lines.
Before diving into details, you want to start from reading README
because it should give you an overview of the design.

All important things are written in the README file, so I write
summary here.

- The linker is already able to self-link on Windows.

- It's significantly faster than the existing implementation.
  The existing one takes 5 seconds to link LLD on my machine,
  while the new one only takes 1.2 seconds, even though the new
  one is not multi-threaded yet. (And a proof-of-concept multi-
  threaded version was able to link it in 0.5 seconds.)

- It uses much less memory (250MB vs. 2GB virtual memory space
  to self-host).

- IMHO the new code is much simpler and easier to read than
  the existing PE/COFF port.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D10036

llvm-svn: 238458
2015-05-28 19:09:30 +00:00