LLVM-LINK(1)

📦 version 15.0.7, in opensuse-leap 16.0

okay so bestie, welcome to llvm-link, aka the LLVM bitcode linker — it's giving glue stick energy and honestly? iconic. this is from the LLVM manual, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 1am 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

llvm-link — the LLVM bitcode linker, no cap. it takes bitcode and smashes it together. that's the whole vibe. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

llvm-link [options] filename ...

literally that's it. options first if you want, then a whole list of filenames. go off. ✨

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea 🍓 — llvm-link takes several LLVM bitcode files and links them together into one single LLVM bitcode file. one file. one vibe. main character energy only.

and where does it go? it writes the output file to standard output, unless you use the -o option to specify a filename. so if you're just running it raw and expecting a file to magically appear... no bestie, it's pouring out into your terminal unless you say otherwise 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -f — enable binary output on terminals. lowkey important: normally llvm-link will refuse to write raw bitcode output if the output stream is a terminal (it's protecting you, and honestly valid of it). with this option, llvm-link will write raw bitcode regardless of the output device. so yeah, it's the "I know what I'm doing" flag 🫶
  • -o filename — specify the output file name, periodt. and if filename is -, then llvm-link will write its output to standard output. cute.
  • -S — write output in LLVM intermediate language (instead of bitcode). so human-readable-ish instead of the crunchy binary stuff 💜
  • -d — if specified, llvm-link prints a human-readable version of the output bitcode file to standard error. not stdout, bestie — stderr. keep up ✨
  • -help — print a summary of command line options. the classic. the icon. the "wait what were the flags again" save 🙈
  • -v — verbose mode. print information about what llvm-link is doing. this typically includes a message for each bitcode file linked in and for each library found. it's giving commentary track and I'm obsessed 🔥

💀 EXIT STATUS 💀

if llvm-link succeeds, it will exit with 0. 🎉 otherwise, if an error occurs, it will exit with a non-zero value. so like... check your exit codes, fr fr. 0 = slay, non-zero = something's up 😭

👑 AUTHOR 👑

maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). kings. legends. the way they keep this whole thing running? ate. 🫶

2003-2023, LLVM Project — that's a whole two decades of bitcode linking, no cap. respect the elders 💜

ok that's the whole page bestie, nothing skipped, nothing invented, every flag accounted for 💅✨

sign-off time 🎀 — this was the LLVM manual page for llvm-link, manual version 15, dated 2023-01-14, and it's brought to you by the LLVM Project. go link some bitcode, you've got this 🦋⭐💖

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