Why is gold still beta?

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Christoph Grüninger <foss@grueninger.de> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> I am wondering why gold is still marked as in beta testing. It was added
>> to binutils seven years ago.
>> Is there a reason for this? What is missing? Are there plans to release
>> it as a proper part of binuitls without being beta?
>
> I think it can come out of beta when some distro makes it the standard linker.
>
> (I'm actually not sure where it is marked as being in beta.)

Gold still can't generate working glibc:

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18102


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H.J.