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Removing global state from LLD

LLD, the LLVM linker, is a mature and fast linker supporting multiple binary formats (ELF, Mach-O, PE/COFF, WebAssembly). Designed as a standalone program, the code base relies heavily on global state, making it less than ideal for library integration. As outlined in RFC: Revisiting LLD-as-a-library design, two main hurdles exist: Fatal errors: they exit the process without returning control to the caller. This was actually addressed for most scenarios in 2020 by utilizing llvm::sys::Process::Ex...

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