llvm-mirror/tools/llvm-nm
Peter Collingbourne 3d7ffbad08 LTO: introduce object file-based on-disk module format.
This format is simply a regular object file with the bitcode stored in a
section named ".llvmbc", plus any number of other (non-allocated) sections.

One immediate use case for this is to accommodate compilation processes
which expect the object file to contain metadata in non-allocated sections,
such as the ".go_export" section used by some Go compilers [1], although I
imagine that in the future we could consider compiling parts of the module
(such as large non-inlinable functions) directly into the object file to
improve LTO efficiency.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo#Imports

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4371

llvm-svn: 218078
2014-09-18 21:28:49 +00:00
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CMakeLists.txt [CMake] Update libdeps. 2014-07-14 05:01:53 +00:00
llvm-nm.cpp LTO: introduce object file-based on-disk module format. 2014-09-18 21:28:49 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt Don't link with the archive library programs that don't use it. 2013-06-17 15:29:46 +00:00
Makefile fix configure+make build 2014-07-03 19:09:53 +00:00