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| -rw-r--r-- | lld/ELF/Driver.cpp | 16 |
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diff --git a/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp b/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp index 2b358251610..92370ab1ec3 100644 --- a/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp +++ b/lld/ELF/Driver.cpp @@ -6,6 +6,22 @@ // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// +// +// The driver drives the entire linking process. It is responsible for +// parsing command line options and doing whatever it is instructed to do. +// +// One notable thing in the LLD's driver when compared to other linkers is +// that the LLD's driver is agnostic on the host operating system. +// Other linkers usually have implicit default values (such as a dynamic +// linker path or library paths) for each host OS. +// +// I don't think implicit default values are useful because they are +// usually explicitly specified by the compiler driver. They can even +// be harmful when you are doing cross-linking. Therefore, in LLD, we +// simply trust the compiler driver to pass all required options to us +// and don't try to make effort on our side. +// +//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #include "Driver.h" #include "Config.h" |
