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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 | e36f4d43a5525a63c4527324229d3fc4d2dc8a0f (patch) | |
| tree | c8bd760f336b39e233046a5b7f49597abb2dc564 | |
| parent | 5974a33ce6f466af42cf2efae9bfb8b95163d659 (diff) | |
Update release notes for lld 7.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lld/branches/release_70@342187 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index baac14fc9..0f15ee92c 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/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``, |