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| author | Rui Ueyama <ruiu@google.com> | 2018-10-01 16:41:58 +0000 |
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| committer | Rui Ueyama <ruiu@google.com> | 2018-10-01 16:41:58 +0000 |
| commit | 27255ebc496aa32d9c94be47a1c7d204591157b1 (patch) | |
| tree | c4d94d4a98b012298650783b683ad81fdc781bbc | |
| parent | 63bfd2ff43142fa36bdecd005fe6f705b0e2e625 (diff) | |
Add an explanation about cross linking.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52567
| -rw-r--r-- | lld/docs/ld.lld.1 | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lld/docs/ld.lld.1 b/lld/docs/ld.lld.1 index 91d6ddfa074..5094253419d 100644 --- a/lld/docs/ld.lld.1 +++ b/lld/docs/ld.lld.1 @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ .\" .\" This man page documents only lld's ELF linking support, obtained originally .\" from FreeBSD. -.Dd September 14, 2018 +.Dd September 26, 2018 .Dt LD.LLD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ .Nm ld.lld .Op Ar options .Ar objfile ... + .Sh DESCRIPTION A linker takes one or more object, archive, and library files, and combines them into an output file (an executable, a shared library, or another object @@ -25,7 +26,21 @@ is a drop-in replacement for the GNU BFD and gold linkers. It accepts most of the same command line arguments and linker scripts as GNU linkers. .Pp -These options are available: +.Nm +currently supports i386, x86-64, ARM, AArch64, PowerPC32, PowerPC64, +MIPS32, MIPS64, RISC-V, AMDGPU, Hexagon and SPARC V9 targets. +.Nm +acts as a Microsoft link.exe-compatible linker if invoked as +.Nm lld-link +and as macOS's ld if invoked as +.Nm ld.ld64. +All these targets are always supported however +.Nm +was built, so you can always use +.Nm +as a native linker as well as a cross linker. + +.Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width indent .It Fl -allow-multiple-definition Do not error if a symbol is defined multiple times. |