From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 10 01:17:00 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4813A230; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from st11p02mm-asmtp001.mac.com (st11p02mm-asmtpout001.mac.com [17.172.220.236]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1BD77F96; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:17:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.17.4.36] (p31209-ipngn8001marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp [153.214.94.209]) by st11p02mm-asmtp001.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.35.0 64bit (built Dec 4 2014)) with ESMTPSA id <0NKZ00KKD27KZP00@st11p02mm-asmtp001.mac.com>; Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:16:36 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.13.68,1.0.33,0.0.0000 definitions=2015-03-09_05:2015-03-09,2015-03-09,1970-01-01 signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=7.0.1-1412110000 definitions=main-1503100013 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 8.2 \(2070.6\)) Subject: Re: GSoC idea - porting and patching of userland for lld, the LLVM linker From: Rui Paulo In-reply-to: <54FDE1C1.90304@mymail.vcu.edu> Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 10:16:32 +0900 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Message-id: <14A66663-722D-4B03-9E32-4CF02396664C@me.com> References: <54F9EFD7.7030803@mymail.vcu.edu> <20150309153622.GB72806@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <54FDE1C1.90304@mymail.vcu.edu> To: Jonathon McDaniels X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.2070.6) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Brooks Davis X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:17:00 -0000 On 10 Mar 2015, at 03:09, Jonathon McDaniels = wrote: >=20 > Instead of lld I'm actually considering doing the idea of making a new = linker from scratch to work with FreeBSD on all architectures[...] That's a monumental task and I think it could never be completed during = the GSoC time frame. -- Rui Paulo