Commit e37bc829 authored by Hans Wennborg's avatar Hans Wennborg
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ReleaseNotes: fixes 

llvm-svn: 341913
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lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst

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@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ 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

default linkers.



lld 7.0 for ELF and COFF are production-ready. lld/ELF can build the entire

lld 7 for ELF and COFF 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

Chrome web browser. Mach-O, MinGW and WebAssembly supports are still

the Chrome web browser. Mach-O, MinGW and WebAssembly supports are still

experimental.



Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
@@ -31,29 +31,29 @@ ELF Improvements 
  jump instruction to mitigate Spectre v2 vulnerability.



* Added experimental support for `SHT_RELR sections

  <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg>` to create a

  <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/generic-abi/bX460iggiKg>`_ to create a

  compact dynamic relocation table.



* Added support for `split stacks <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks>`.

* Added support for `split stacks <https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks>`_.



* Added support for address significance table (section with type

  SHT_LLVM_ADDRSIG) to improve Identical Code Folding (ICF). Combined with the

  ``-faddrsig`` compiler option added to Clang 7.0, lld's ``--icf=all`` can now

  ``-faddrsig`` compiler option added to Clang 7, lld's ``--icf=all`` can now

  safely merge functions and data to generate smaller outputs than before.



* Improved ``--gdb-index`` so that it is faster (`r336790

  <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL336790>`) and uses less memory (`r336672

  <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL336672>`).

  <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL336790>`_) and uses less memory (`r336672

  <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL336672>`_).



* Reduced memory usage of ``--compress-debug-sections`` (`r338913

  <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL338913>`).

  <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL338913>`_).



* Added linker script OVERLAY support (`r335714 <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL335714>`).

* Added linker script OVERLAY support (`r335714 <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL335714>`_).



* Added ``--warn-backref`` to make it easy to identify command line option order

  that doesn't work with GNU linkers (`r329636 <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL329636>`)

  that doesn't work with GNU linkers (`r329636 <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL329636>`_)



* Added ld.lld.1 man page (`r324512 <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL324512>`).

* Added ld.lld.1 man page (`r324512 <https://reviews.llvm.org/rL324512>`_).



* Added support for multi-GOT.