[ld] add --print-* for diagnostics #11614
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Currently `zig cc`, when confronted with a linker argument it does not understand, skips the flag and emits a warning. This has been causing headaches for people that build third-party software (including me). Zig seemingly builds and links the final executable, only to segfault when running it. If there are linker warnings when compiling software, the first thing we have to do is add support for ones linker is complaining, and only then go file issues. If zig "successfully" (i.e. status code = 0) compiles a binary, there is instead a tendency to blaim "zig doing something weird". (I am guilty of this.) In my experience, adding the unsupported arguments has been quite easy; see ziglang#11679, ziglang#11875, ziglang#11874 for recent examples. With the current ones (+ prerequisites below) I was able to build all of the CGo programs that I am encountering at $dayjob. CGo is a reasonable example, because it is exercising the unusual linker args quite a bit. Prerequisites: ziglang#11614 and ziglang#11863.
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Currently `zig cc`, when confronted with a linker argument it does not understand, skips the flag and emits a warning. This has been causing headaches for people that build third-party software (including me). Zig seemingly builds and links the final executable, only to segfault when running it. If there are linker warnings when compiling software, the first thing we have to do is add support for ones linker is complaining, and only then go file issues. If zig "successfully" (i.e. status code = 0) compiles a binary, there is instead a tendency to blaim "zig doing something weird". (I am guilty of this.) In my experience, adding the unsupported arguments has been quite easy; see ziglang#11679, ziglang#11875, ziglang#11874 for recent examples. With the current ones (+ prerequisites below) I was able to build all of the CGo programs that I am encountering at $dayjob. CGo is a reasonable example, because it is exercising the unusual linker args quite a bit. Prerequisites: ziglang#11614 and ziglang#11863.
This adds the following for passthrough to lld: - `--print-gc-sections` - `--print-icf-sections` - `--print-map` I am not adding these to the cache manifest, since it does not change the produced artifacts. Tested with an example from ziglang#11398: it successfully prints the resulting map and the GC'd sections.
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Currently `zig cc`, when confronted with a linker argument it does not understand, skips the flag and emits a warning. This has been causing headaches for people that build third-party software (including me). Zig seemingly builds and links the final executable, only to segfault when running it. If there are linker warnings when compiling software, the first thing we have to do is add support for ones linker is complaining, and only then go file issues. If zig "successfully" (i.e. status code = 0) compiles a binary, there is instead a tendency to blaim "zig doing something weird". (I am guilty of this.) In my experience, adding the unsupported arguments has been quite easy; see ziglang#11679, ziglang#11875, ziglang#11874 for recent examples. With the current ones (+ prerequisites below) I was able to build all of the CGo programs that I am encountering at $dayjob. CGo is a reasonable example, because it is exercising the unusual linker args quite a bit. Prerequisites: ziglang#11614 and ziglang#11863.
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Currently `zig cc`, when confronted with a linker argument it does not understand, skips the flag and emits a warning. This has been causing headaches for people that build third-party software (including me). Zig seemingly builds and links the final executable, only to segfault when running it. If there are linker warnings when compiling software, the first thing we have to do is add support for ones linker is complaining, and only then go file issues. If zig "successfully" (i.e. status code = 0) compiles a binary, there is instead a tendency to blaim "zig doing something weird". (I am guilty of this.) In my experience, adding the unsupported arguments has been quite easy; see ziglang#11679, ziglang#11875, ziglang#11874 for recent examples. With the current ones (+ prerequisites below) I was able to build all of the CGo programs that I am encountering at $dayjob. CGo is a reasonable example, because it is exercising the unusual linker args quite a bit. Prerequisites: ziglang#11614 and ziglang#11863.
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Currently `zig cc`, when confronted with a linker argument it does not understand, skips the flag and emits a warning. This has been causing headaches for people that build third-party software (including me). Zig seemingly builds and links the final executable, only to segfault when running it. If there are linker warnings when compiling software, the first thing we have to do is add support for ones linker is complaining, and only then go file issues. If zig "successfully" (i.e. status code = 0) compiles a binary, there is instead a tendency to blaim "zig doing something weird". (I am guilty of this.) In my experience, adding the unsupported arguments has been quite easy; see ziglang#11679, ziglang#11875, ziglang#11874 for recent examples. With the current ones (+ prerequisites below) I was able to build all of the CGo programs that I am encountering at $dayjob. CGo is a reasonable example, because it is exercising the unusual linker args quite a bit. Prerequisites: ziglang#11614 and ziglang#11863.
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Currently `zig cc`, when confronted with a linker argument it does not understand, skips the flag and emits a warning. This has been causing headaches for people that build third-party software (including me). Zig seemingly builds and links the final executable, only to segfault when running it. If there are linker warnings when compiling software, the first thing we have to do is add support for ones linker is complaining, and only then go file issues. If zig "successfully" (i.e. status code = 0) compiles a binary, there is instead a tendency to blaim "zig doing something weird". (I am guilty of this.) In my experience, adding the unsupported arguments has been quite easy; see #11679, #11875, #11874 for recent examples. With the current ones (+ prerequisites below) I was able to build all of the CGo programs that I am encountering at $dayjob. CGo is a reasonable example, because it is exercising the unusual linker args quite a bit. Prerequisites: #11614 and #11863.
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This adds the following for passthrough to lld:
--print-gc-sections--print-icf-sections--print-mapI am not adding these to the cache manifest, since it does not change
the produced artifacts.
Tested with an example from #11398: it successfully prints the resulting
map and the GC'd sections.