Will the gold linker ever be NON Beta ?

[Ian Lance Taylor via binutils]

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