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author | Rui Ueyama <ruiu@google.com> | 2018-09-13 21:50:59 +0000 |
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committer | Rui Ueyama <ruiu@google.com> | 2018-09-13 21:50:59 +0000 |
commit | a677dc57c81a14a96a6cac7a2943260c77058405 (patch) | |
tree | 1e6f29115a6221ceb2a17ecd1da0f16dfc357ef4 /lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | |
parent | 03324bb54a15983fbc0d06a8c79e8fa2d9c70d19 (diff) |
Update release notes for lld 7.linaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-armv8l-release-stable-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-armv8l-release-next-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-armv8l-release-mainline-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-armv8l-release-mainlinelinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-armv8l-release-lts-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-aarch64-release-stable-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-aarch64-release-stablelinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-aarch64-release-next-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-aarch64-release-mainline-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-aarch64-release-mainlinelinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-aarch64-release-lts-defconfig_nolselinaro-local/ci/tcwg-llvm-kernel-baseline-aarch64-release-lts
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diff --git a/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index baac14fc9be..0f15ee92cc8 100644 --- a/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -10,15 +10,24 @@ Introduction lld is a high-performance linker that supports ELF (Unix), COFF (Windows), Mach-O (macOS), MinGW and WebAssembly. lld is command-line-compatible with GNU -linkers and Microsoft link.exe, and is significantly faster than these system +linkers and Microsoft link.exe, and is significantly faster than the system default linkers. -lld 7 for ELF, COFF and MinGW are production-ready. lld/ELF can build the entire -FreeBSD/AMD64 and will be the default linker of the next version of the -operating system. lld/COFF is being used to build popular large programs such as -the Chrome web browser. lld/MinGW is being used by Firefox for their MinGW -builds. lld/MinGW still needs a sysroot specifically built for lld, with -llvm-dlltool, though. Mach-O and WebAssembly supports are still experimental. +lld 7 for ELF, COFF and MinGW are production-ready. + +* lld/ELF can build the entire FreeBSD/{AMD64,ARMv7} and will be the default + linker of the next version of the operating system. + +* lld/COFF is being used to create official builds of large popular programs + such as Chrome and Firefox. + +* lld/MinGW is being used by Firefox for their MinGW builds. lld/MinGW still + needs a sysroot specifically built for lld, with llvm-dlltool, though. + +* lld/WebAssembly is used as the default (only) linker in Emscripten when using + the upstream LLVM compiler. + +* lld/Mach-O is still experimental. Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release ================================================= @@ -97,6 +106,8 @@ COFF Improvements * Changed section layout to improve compatibility with link.exe. +* `/subsystem` inference is improved to cover more corner cases. + * Added the following flags: ``--color-diagnostics={always,never,auto}``, ``--no-color-diagnostics``, ``/brepro``, ``/debug:full``, ``/debug:ghash``, ``/guard:cf``, ``/guard:longjmp``, ``/guard:nolongjmp``, ``/integritycheck``, |