[llvm-dev] ThinLTO: passing TargetOptions to LLVMgold.so (original) (raw)

Johan Engelen via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 6 02:01:47 PDT 2016

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Mehdi Amini <mehdi.amini at apple.com> wrote:

> But some other options are not expressed in IR (e.g. FunctionSections, relocation model). > I see that I can pass LLVM options to the plugin, so one way is to pass all non-default options as plugin-opt cmdline flags. I can't find code in Clang that does that though. The usual model is that the linker interacts with the LTO codegen to pass these options.

My question is: how does the linker know what to tell the LTO codegen? ;)

Assuming you’d link a program on MacOS with ThinLTO for instance, the linker will derive the “pic model” the following way: https://github.com/Apple-FOSS-Mirror/ld64/blob/master/src/ ld/parsers/ltofile.cpp#L594 (not the call to ::ltocodegensetpicmodel).

Thanks a lot for the pointer. (didn't even realize that ld64 source is so easily available) This lead me to where ld64 receives the options, so I can browse through that to see what it accepts (it accepts -mllvm so that's nice).

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