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| author | Martin Storsjo <martin@martin.st> | 2019-08-01 20:45:27 +0000 |
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| committer | Martin Storsjo <martin@martin.st> | 2019-08-01 20:45:27 +0000 |
| commit | f3cba819d7371fcc997dfb40040348ec1eaf97b2 (patch) | |
| tree | e4dcc706a1d6e36aaa2fb5a9be423898b0767042 | |
| parent | ceda1b7a5d1caee63925896e50b707aa321438dd (diff) | |
Update release notes for things I've done since the last release
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lld/branches/release_90@367611 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 76207fec1..bccef8165 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -53,6 +53,14 @@ COFF Improvements * Several speed and memory usage improvements. +* Range extension thunks are now created for ARM64, if needed + +* lld-link now supports resource object files created by GNU windres and + MS cvtres, not only llvm-cvtres + +* The generated thunks for delayimports now share the majority of code + among thunks, significantly reducing the overhead of using delayimport + * ... MinGW Improvements @@ -62,6 +70,17 @@ MinGW Improvements terminators for the sections such as .eh_frame properly, fixing DWARF exception handling with libgcc and gcc's crtend.o. +* lld now also handles DWARF unwind info generated by GCC, when linking + with libgcc + +* Many more GNU ld options are now supported, which e.g. allows the lld + MinGW frontend to be called by GCC + +* PDB output can be requested without manually specifying the PDB file + name, with the new option ``-pdb=`` with an empty value to the option. + (The old existing syntax ``-pdb <filename>`` was more cumbersome to use + with an empty parameter value.) + MachO Improvements ------------------ |