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Date:      Mon, 1 Aug 2016 22:30:20 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org" <freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Update on using LLVM's lld linker in the FreeBSD base system
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>> Generally, I like it though. My concerns are mostly with ports and gcc plans.
>> Though it isn't coupled to gcc, I'd suggest that we want to have a joint plan
>> for both before we get out the axes. Note this is purely a timing argument,
>> not whether to get them out, just when :)
>
> Yes, fully agree. I want to have lld available as soon as is feasible,
> but have no intention of trying to remove old GNU ld or GCC 4.2 until
> a viable path forward exists for all architectures.

Agreed. We don't have to have a plan for removal before moving forward
on lld.

Warner



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