[swift-dev] Porting Swift to Linux aarch64 (arm64)

[William Dillon]

I’m on a limb here, but is it possible that the gold linker is causing issues, or is it required?

- Will

> On Dec 13, 2015, at 11:45 PM, Dmitri Gribenko via swift-dev <swift-dev at swift.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This weekend I have been playing with Swift on Linux on 64-bit arm.  I
> have summarized my findings in this bug:
> 
> https://bugs.swift.org/browse/SR-221
> 
> TL;DR: 20 tests fail in the main testsuite; there is an issue with
> type metadata, I'm thinking this is a linker issue.
> 
> If someone would like to investigate further -- especially if you are
> familiar with the internals of the binutils linker -- your help would
> be much appreciated!
> 
> Dmitri
> 
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