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| author | John Criswell <criswell@uiuc.edu> | 2003-09-25 19:14:51 +0000 |
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| committer | John Criswell <criswell@uiuc.edu> | 2003-09-25 19:14:51 +0000 |
| commit | b7fcd30be6343246cf5e1fb981038bcc66732d24 (patch) | |
| tree | a5dcf586323e47385af8b15536c0e0988aaf7e71 /docs/CommandGuide | |
| parent | 52f68b89bedd26313aed7560dc218e5f92e0dd95 (diff) | |
Added an explanation of gccld's behavior when linking in native mode.
Also gives me an excuse to re-commit the file on Tank.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@8714 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/CommandGuide/gccld.html | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/CommandGuide/gccld.html b/docs/CommandGuide/gccld.html index 72d53732e3..36a67aff19 100644 --- a/docs/CommandGuide/gccld.html +++ b/docs/CommandGuide/gccld.html @@ -143,6 +143,14 @@ OPTIONS <li> -native <br> Generate a native, machine code executable. + <p> + When generating native executables, gccld first checks for a bytecode version + of the library and links it in, if necessary. If the library is missing, + gccld skips it. Then, gccld links in the same libraries as native code. + <p> + In this way, gccld should be able to link in optimized bytecode subsets of + common libraries and then link in any part of the library that hasn't been + converted to bytecode. <p> <li> -s |