Release 2.35 on Friday 24th ?

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Fri Jul 24 11:29:08 GMT 2020


On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 4:23 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Guys,
>
> > On 2020-07-24 03:13, Alan Modra wrote:
>
> > Gold isn't in good shape when using modern gcc and glibc.
>
> I have been wondering if gold has started to bit-rot.  I mean no
> insult to Cary or anyone else, but it seems to me that development
> work on gold has come to a halt, and bug fixes and new features are
> only being added when they are ported from the BFD linker.
>
> Is it time to deprecate gold ?

Yes, we should.  I think lld is a good replacement for gold.


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H.J.


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