lld 10.0.0 Release Notes¶
Warning
These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 10.0.0 release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on the Download Page.
Introduction¶
This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release 10.0.0. 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¶
- Glob pattern, which you can use in linker scripts or version scripts, now supports ` and `[!…]. Except character classes (e.g. [[:digit:]]), lld’s glob pattern should be fully compatible with GNU now. (r375051)
- New
elf32btsmipn32_fbsd
andelf32ltsmipn32_fbsd
emulations are supported. - Relax MIPS
jalr``and ``jr
instructions marked by theR_MIPS_JALR
relocation. - Reduced size of linked MIPS binaries.
MachO Improvements¶
- Item 1.
WebAssembly Improvements¶
- __data_end and __heap_base are no longer exported by default, as it’s best to keep them internal when possible. They can be explicitly exported with –export=__data_end and –export=__heap_base, respectively.