Doing that speeds up the built clang by around 25% (which is rather
significant) and reduces the size of the clang executable by almost 30%.
But since the mingw target in clang/llvm is less mature and less widely
tested than other llvm targets, running with assertions allows catching
quite a few issues during build instead of ending up with potentially
broken code.
This version fixes issues with linking mingw-style SEH data (making
sure all unwind info is included), adds support for assembler
directives like .rva, which often is used in SEH contexts, and
updates clang's unwind.h to match the libgcc ABI for SEH unwinding.
This allows using GNU binutils strip and objcopy on executables with
dwarf debug info linked by lld.
This also improves clang's handling of detecting known libraries
that override default libraries to link.
This fixes an issue with code generation for functions that needed
a stack probe on armv7, improves llvm-rc and adds a few more options
to the mingw lld frontend.
This version improves llvm-rc to support more rc script features
and features built-in filtering of CPP output in llvm-rc. It also
improves the handling of some def features in llvm-dlltool, allows
producing codeview debug information when targeting mingw and adds
handling of a few more ARM64 relocations in lld.
This version fixes issues with long double math functions on x86_64
(and some mingw-w64 float/double math functions are implemented with
a long double function internally), and adds support for the --kill-at
flag in lld.
This fixes issues with -mms-bitfields together with "long double"
on i686, and allows using the -static flag while building DLLs
(to link dependent libraries statically), and implements stack
probing for alloca calls on aarch64.
Martin Storsjö