Commit 6d574b62 authored by Hans Wennborg's avatar Hans Wennborg
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ReleaseNotes: typos and tweaks 

llvm-svn: 296191
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lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst

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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ LLD is a linker which supports ELF (Unix), COFF (Windows) and Mach-O 
(macOS). It is generally faster than the GNU BFD/gold linkers or the

MSVC linker.



LLD is designed to be a drop-in replacmenet for the system linkers, so

LLD is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the system linkers, so

that users don't need to change their build systems other than swapping

the linker command.
@@ -46,17 +46,17 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: 
  but the source location of unresolved symbols.



* Error messages are printed in red just like Clang by default. You

  can disable it by passing -no-color-diagnostics.

  can disable it by passing ``-no-color-diagnostics``.



* LLD's version string is now embedded in a .comment section in the

  result output file. You can dump it with this command: ``objdump -j -s

  .comment <file>``.



* The -Map option is supported. With that, you can print out section

* The ``-Map`` option is supported. With that, you can print out section

  and symbol information to a specified file. This feature is useful

  for analyzing link results.



* The file format for the -reproduce option has changed from cpio to

* The file format for the ``-reproduce`` option has changed from cpio to

  tar.



* When creating a copy relocation for a symbol, LLD now scans the
@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: 
  space for the copy relocation is reserved in .bss.rel.ro instead of

  .bss. This fixes a security issue that read-only data in a DSO

  becomes writable if it is copied by a copy relocation. This issue

  was disclosed originally on the binutils mailing list at

  `<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00914.html>`.

  was disclosed originally on the

  `binutils mailing list <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00914.html>`_.



* Compressed input sections are supported.
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: 
  ``-Ttext``, ``-b binary``, ``-build-id=uuid``, ``-no-rosegment``,

  ``-nopie``, ``-nostdlib``, ``-omagic``, ``-retain-symbols-file``,

  ``-sort-section``, ``-z max-page-size`` and ``-z wxneeded`` are

  suppoorted.

  supported.



* A lot of linker script directives have been added.
@@ -81,15 +81,15 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: 
  0x200000 to make it huge-page friendly.



* ARM port now supports GNU ifunc, the ARM C++ exceptions ABI, TLS

  relocations and static linking. Problems with dlopen() on systems

  relocations and static linking. Problems with ``dlopen()`` on systems

  using eglibc fixed.



* MIPS port now supports input files in new R6 revision of MIPS ABIs

  or N32 ABI. Generated file now contains .MIPS.abiflags section and

  complete set of ELF headers flags.



* Relocations produced by the ``-mxgot`` compiler's flag is supported

  for MIPS. Now it is possible to generate "large" GOT exceeds 64K

* Relocations produced by the ``-mxgot`` compiler flag is supported

  for MIPS. Now it is possible to generate "large" GOT that exceeds the 64K

  limit.



COFF Improvements