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Re: Will the gold linker ever be NON Beta ?
- From: "Ian Lance Taylor via binutils" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- To: Gordon McConnell <Gordon dot McConnell at synopsys dot com>
- Cc: "binutils at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:30:02 -0700
- Subject: Re: Will the gold linker ever be NON Beta ?
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- Reply-to: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 7:17 AM, Gordon McConnell
<Gordon.McConnell@synopsys.com> wrote:
>
> The main binutils page at https://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ states:
> gold - A new, faster, ELF only linker, still in beta test.
>
> I've found some old threads about gold's Beta status - the newest appears to be this one from April 2015: https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-04/msg00051.html
>
> Has anything changed since then, such that the Beta status might be altered any time soon ?
As far as I know nothing has changed, which is to say, no GNU/Linux
distro has yet chosen to make gold the standard linker.
Ian