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"skip linking" -- what's this part mean? Does cranelift have an option to directly make locally-resolved executables without external references somehow?

• Ericson2314 6y ago
  Yes that is what I mean. I don't know for sure, but because of Cranelift's origins as a JIT for wasm, I suspect that it does.
  • wyldfire 6y ago
    It wouldn't surprise me if that is a wasm backend only option. It sounds very unconventional for other targets.
    • Ericson2314 6y ago
      To be clear, Cranelifts original purpose was JIT compiling WASM to machine code, not other things to WASM. Skipping linking isn't too radical: traditional compilers already effectively do it infra-procedurally for resolving labels to (relative) addresses. "wasm backend" sounds like you were thinking the latter?