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This patch introduces support for Integrated Distributed ThinLTO (DTLTO) in ELF LLD. DTLTO enables the distribution of ThinLTO backend compilations via external distribution systems, such as Incredibuild, during the traditional link step: https://llvm.org/docs/DTLTO.html. It is expected that users will invoke DTLTO through the compiler driver (e.g., Clang) rather than calling LLD directly. A Clang-side interface for DTLTO will be added in a follow-up patch. Note: Bitcode members of archives (thin or non-thin) are not currently supported. This will be addressed in a future change. As a consequence of this lack of support, this patch is not sufficient to allow for self-hosting an LLVM build with DTLTO. Theoretically, --start-lib/--end-lib could be used instead of archives in a self-host build. However, it's unclear how --start-lib/--end-lib can be easily used with the LLVM build system. Testing: - ELF LLD `lit` test coverage has been added, using a mock distributor to avoid requiring Clang. - Cross-project `lit` tests cover integration with Clang. For the design discussion of the DTLTO feature, see: #126654.
LLVM Linker (lld)
This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.
lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.
Benchmarking
In order to make sure various developers can evaluate patches over the same tests, we create a collection of self contained programs.
It is hosted at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz
The current sha256 is 10eec685463d5a8bbf08d77f4ca96282161d396c65bd97dc99dbde644a31610f.