[PATCH v3 17/18] PR ld/24600: BFD: Add general linker support for fake archives

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2026, Jan Beulich wrote:

> >  It seems an actually used feature however, given that unmaintained and 
> > deprecated GOLD already has it and I'm told the lack of this feature in 
> > BFD prevents GOLD from being dropped from binutils as some projects rely 
> > on this feature despite the obvious performance penalty.
> 
> Okay, this is a relevant piece of information that I wasn't aware of so far
> (and which could do with adding to the description of, perhaps, the final
> patch).

 Sure, I've mentioned the GOLD feature then in both changes (this and the 
next, final one in the series) in v5 just respun for the binutils updates 
made since.

  Maciej