llvm-6502/lib/Object
Rafael Espindola 250bfb1745 Remove the LLVM specific archive index.
Archive files (.a) can have a symbol table indicating which object
files in them define which symbols. The purpose of this symbol table
is to speed up linking by allowing the linker the read only the .o
files it is actually going to use instead of having to parse every
object's symbol table.

LLVM's archive library currently supports a LLVM specific format for
such table. It is hard to see any value in that now that llvm-ld is
gone:

* System linkers don't use it: GNU ar uses the same plugin as the
linker to create archive files with a regular index. The OS X ar
creates no symbol table for IL files, I assume the linker just parses
all IL files.

* It doesn't interact well with archives having both IL and native objects.

* We probably don't want to be responsible for yet another archive
format variant.

This patch then:

* Removes support for creating and reading such index from lib/Archive.
* Remove llvm-ranlib, since there is nothing left for it to do.

We should in the future add support for regular indexes to llvm-ar for
both native and IL objects. When we do that, llvm-ranlib should be
reimplemented as a symlink to llvm-ar, as it is equivalent to "ar s".

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@184019 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2013-06-14 23:25:53 +00:00
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Archive.cpp Remove the LLVM specific archive index. 2013-06-14 23:25:53 +00:00
Binary.cpp readobj: Dump PE/COFF optional records. 2013-06-12 19:10:33 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt [yaml2obj] Initial ELF support. 2013-06-10 23:44:15 +00:00
COFFObjectFile.cpp readobj: Dump PE/COFF optional records. 2013-06-12 19:10:33 +00:00
COFFYAML.cpp Print symbol names in relocations when dumping COFF as YAML. 2013-06-06 13:06:17 +00:00
ELFObjectFile.cpp Replace Count{Leading,Trailing}Zeros_{32,64} with count{Leading,Trailing}Zeros. 2013-05-24 22:23:49 +00:00
ELFYAML.cpp [yaml2obj] Add support for sh_addralign via AddressAlign key. 2013-06-14 00:38:02 +00:00
Error.cpp
LLVMBuild.txt
MachOObjectFile.cpp Teach llvm-objdump with the -macho parser how to use the data in code table 2013-06-06 17:20:50 +00:00
Makefile
Object.cpp Handle relocations that don't point to symbols. 2013-06-05 01:33:53 +00:00
ObjectFile.cpp Fix variable name style. Don't cast to and from int. 2013-06-11 15:29:10 +00:00
YAML.cpp Use isxdigit. 2013-06-07 18:05:03 +00:00