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| author | Dylan Baker <dylan@pnwbakers.com> | 2020-02-18 14:22:13 -0800 |
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| committer | Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com> | 2020-02-21 05:15:25 +0530 |
| commit | 9e7cca1472891582d6369c8f11f46163f7265168 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ab635198be3b6aac93b63f201236bd2b1afbcec | |
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docs: Fix reference table for linker names
These are pretty much all over the place because I never intended them
to be exposed to the meson source language, they were meant just for
documentation.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md | 30 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md index 86524b7..9ac6459 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-tables.md @@ -33,16 +33,26 @@ These are return values of the `get_id` (Compiler family) and ## Linker ids -These are return values of the `get_linker_id` (Linker family) method in a compiler object. - -| Value | Linker family | -| ----- | --------------- | -| ld.bfd | GNU Compiler Collection | -| {ld.bfd,lld} | Clang non-Windows | -| link | MSVC, Clang-cl, clang Windows | -| pgi | Portland/Nvidia PGI | -| {ld.bfd,gold,xild} | Intel compiler non-Windows | -| xilink | Intel-cl Windows | +These are return values of the `get_linker_id` method in a compiler object. + +| Value | Linker family | +| ----- | --------------- | +| ld.bfd | The GNU linker | +| ld.gold | The GNU linker | +| lld | The LLVM linker, with the GNU interface | +| link | MSVC linker | +| pgi | Portland/Nvidia PGI | +| lld-link | The LLVM linker, with the MSVC interface | +| xilink | Used with Intel-cl only, MSVC like | +| rlink | The Renesas linker, used with CCrx only | +| armlink | The ARM linker (arm and armclang compilers) | +| optlink | optlink | +| APPLE ld | Apple ld64 | +| solaris | Solaris and illumos | + +For languages that don't have separate dynamic linkers such as C# and Java, the +`get_linker_id` will return the compiler name. + ## Script environment variables |