Zig's New Relationship with LLVM

Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by kevsim on Monday September 28, 2020 @12:56PM (#24618717)

Doesn't sound like it. Seems like it appends the new versions of the functions and updates the global offset table.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by alexnask on Monday September 28, 2020 @01:38PM (#24619220)

Not quite, the linkers (at least ELF and PE which I am familiar with) will "free" parts of the file (when a block needs to be reallocated because the decl code gets too big, or when a decl is removed) and reuse them when they can.

But in general, the final executable will not be the same, this is correct.

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Re:Zig's New Relationship with LLVM by kevsim on Monday September 28, 2020 @02:41PM (#24619930)

Thanks for clarifying!

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