LLVM-LINK(1)

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okay bestie, this is a page from the LLVM manual, and honestly? she's iconic. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

llvm-link — the LLVM bitcode linker, aka the girl who takes all your little bitcode files and makes them one 💖

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

llvm-link [options] filename …

like, you hand her a bunch of filenames and some options and she does her thing, periodt.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so llvm-link takes several LLVM bitcode files and links them together into a single LLVM bitcode file. one file. unified. main character energy ✨

and where does it go? she writes the output file to standard output — unless you use the -o option to specify a filename. that's it, that's the vibe. no cap.

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -f — turns on binary output on terminals. normally llvm-link will refuse to write raw bitcode output if the output stream is a terminal (she's got boundaries, okay?). with this option, she'll write raw bitcode regardless of the output device. no thoughts, just bytes 🔥
  • -o filename — specify the output file name. and listen: if filename is "-", then llvm-link will write its output to standard output. yes bestie, a literal dash, that's the whole trick 💫
  • -S — write output in LLVM intermediate language instead of bitcode. so, human-ish text. cute ✍️
  • -d — if specified, llvm-link prints a human-readable version of the output bitcode file to standard error. it's giving "let me show you what's inside" 🙈
  • -help — print a summary of command line options. she will explain herself, as she should 👑
  • -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. so basically she narrates her own life 😭 love that for her

🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

  • if llvm-link succeeds, she exits with 0. slay 💖
  • otherwise, if an error occurs, she exits with a non-zero value. not slay 💀

🍓 AUTHOR 🍓

maintained by the LLVM Team (https://llvm.org/). the group chat admins, fr fr 🫶

2003-2024, LLVM Project — that's the whole legacy right there ⭐

lowkey a reminder: everything above is exactly as serious as it sounds. -f is genuinely the "please write raw bitcode even though this is a terminal" escape hatch, and -S genuinely changes what language the output is in. don't skip the boring-sounding bits, bestie, they matter 💜

okay that's the whole page! this was page 15 of the LLVM manual, dated 2024-04-14, from the LLVM-LINK(1) era of the LLVM project. ily, go link some bitcode 💅✨🎀

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