Support `#pragma comment(lib, "name")` in the frontend for ELF
This adds the frontend support required to support the use of the
comment pragma to enable auto linking on ELFish targets. This is a
generic ELF extension supported by LLVM. We need to change the handling
for the "dependentlib" in order to accommodate the previously discussed
encoding for the dependent library descriptor. Without the custom
handling of the PCK_Lib directive, the -l prefixed option would be
encoded into the resulting object (which is treated as a frontend
error).
llvm-svn: 324438
diff --git a/clang/docs/LanguageExtensions.rst b/clang/docs/LanguageExtensions.rst
index 41f1613..6d9bbcb 100644
--- a/clang/docs/LanguageExtensions.rst
+++ b/clang/docs/LanguageExtensions.rst
@@ -2725,3 +2725,11 @@
* The decision about which section-kind applies to each global is taken in the back-end.
Once the section-kind is known, appropriate section name, as specified by the user using
``#pragma clang section`` directive, is applied to that global.
+
+Specifying Linker Options on ELF Targets
+========================================
+
+The ``#pragma comment(lib, ...)`` directive is supported on all ELF targets.
+The second parameter is the library name (without the traditional Unix prefix of
+``lib``). This allows you to provide an implicit link of dependent libraries.
+