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Wild – A fast linker for Linux

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383 points hkalbasi | 3 comments | 24 Jan 25 16:25 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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shmerl ◴[24 Jan 25 19:04 UTC] No.42816069[source]▶
That looks promising. In Rust to begin with and with the goal of being fast and support incremental linking.

To use it with Rust, this can probbaly also work using gcc as linker driver.

In project's .cargo/config.toml:

    [target.x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu]
    rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=wild"]
Side note, but why does Rust need to plug into gcc or clang for that? Some missing functionality?
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1. sedatk ◴[24 Jan 25 20:09 UTC] No.42816486[source]▶
Because Rust compiler generates IR bytecode, not machine code.
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2. shmerl ◴[24 Jan 25 20:27 UTC] No.42816604[source]▶
That's the reason to use llvm as part of Rust compiler toolchain, not to use gcc or clang as linker manager?
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3. sedatk ◴[24 Jan 25 22:12 UTC] No.42817419[source]▶
You're right, @davidlattimore seems to have answered that.