yaxunl added a comment.

In D59316#1431238 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59316#1431238>, @arsenm wrote:

> In D59316#1429580 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59316#1429580>, @yaxunl wrote:
>
> > Here we are looking at the code which emulates a "linker" for HIP 
> > toolchain. The offloading action builder requests the offloading toolchain 
> > have a linker, but amdgpu does not have a real linker (ISA level linker), 
> > so we have to emulate that. If we have an ISA level linker we can get rid 
> > of all these stuff, but I don't think that will happen in short time.
>
>
> This isn't really true. We do run lld to link the final executable. It also 
> doesn't change that opt and llc should never be involved in the process


Can lld do ISA level linking? That is, one device function in one object file 
calls another device function in a different object file, and we let lld link 
them together?


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