ReleaseNotes.rst

lld |release| Release Notes

• Introduction
• Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
  • ELF Improvements
  • Breaking changes
  • COFF Improvements
  • MinGW Improvements
  • MachO Improvements
  • WebAssembly Improvements
    • Fixes

.. only:: PreRelease

  .. warning::
     These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM |release| release.
     Release notes for previous releases can be found on
     `the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.

Introduction

This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release |release|. Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.

Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

ELF Improvements

• For AArch64, added support for -zgcs-report-dynamic, enabling checks for GNU GCS Attribute Flags in Dynamic Objects when GCS is enabled. Inherits value from -zgcs-report (capped at warning level) unless user-defined, ensuring compatibility with GNU ld linker.

Breaking changes

COFF Improvements

MinGW Improvements

MachO Improvements

WebAssembly Improvements

Fixes