| Deprecation notice: |
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| * The gold linker has been deprecated [1]. Alternatives are GNU's ld, LLVM's |
| lld, and mold. |
| * By extension, dwp has been deprecated. An alternative is LLVM's llvm-dwp. |
| Elfutils has proposed an eu-dwp [2], but at release 0.194 it doesn't exist |
| yet. |
| * Both these components will eventually be removed, unless volunteers (for |
| either one or both components) step forward and offer to continue |
| development and maintenance. |
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| [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2025-02/msg00001.html |
| [2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31360 |
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| Changes since 1.16: |
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| * gold and dwp now support zstd compressed debug sections. |
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| * The new option --compress-debug-sections=zstd compresses debug sections with |
| zstd. |
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| * Remove support for -z bndplt (MPX prefix instructions). |
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| Changes in 1.16: |
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| * Improve warning messages for relocations that refer to discarded sections. |
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| * Add --debug=plugin option for easier debugging of plugin-related problems. |
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| * Add -z keep_text_section_prefix option. |
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| * Add support for R_AARCH64_TLSLE_LDST8_TPREL_LO12, etc., relocations |
| (Aarch64 only). |
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| * Update configuration to enable plugins and threads automatically. |
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| * Add support for .note.gnu.property sections (from Linux ABI extensions). |
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| * Add support for Intel Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) and Shadow Stack |
| (x86-64 only). |
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| Changes in 1.15: |
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| * Add support for .MIPS.options sections (MIPS only). |
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| * Add support for compound relocations (MIPS only). |
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| * Add --emit-stub-syms, --no-tls-optimize, --tls-get-addr-optimize options |
| (PowerPC only). |
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| * Add -z text-unlikely-segment option. |
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| * Add plugin support for adding new input files (LDPT_REGISTER_NEW_INPUT_HOOK). |
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| Changes in 1.14: |
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| * Add -z bndplt option (x86-64 only) to support Intel MPX. |
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| * Add --orphan-handling option. |
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| * Add --stub-group-multi option (PowerPC only). |
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| * Add --target1-rel, --target1-abs, --target2 options (Arm only). |
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| * Add -z stack-size option. |
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| * Add --be8 option (Arm only). |
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| * Add HIDDEN support in linker scripts. |
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| * Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY support in linker scripts. |
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| Changes in 1.12: |
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| * Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should |
| be enabled by default. Default to yes. |
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| * Add support for s390, MIPS, AArch64, and TILE-Gx architectures. |
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| * Add support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. |
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| * Add support for incremental linking (--incremental). |
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| Changes in 1.11: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.10: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.9: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.8: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.7: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.6: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.5: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.4: |
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| [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
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| Changes in 1.3: |
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| * gold added to GNU binutils. |
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