[PING^2][PATCH v5 00/12] PR ld/24600: Add general linker support for mapless archives

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2026, Fangrui Song wrote:

> I sent a message at Wed, Nov 19, 2025, 11:40 PM, which likely got
> blocked because I used maskray@sourceware.org (supposed to be a
> receive only address) as a sender
> """
> If you send an updated series, I hope the --link-mapless option can be
> renamed to avoid confusion with -M/-Map :)
> 
> I believe the option length doesn't really matter as it would not be
> used often - and at some point will become legacy
> 
> >      -M /-M      --print-map       Print a link map to the standard output.
> >       -Map=mapfile /-Map             Print a link map to the file mapfile.
> """

 It wasn't blocked, cf. 
<https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/CAN30aBFcFvrJVtneHhmYpwRYr_u_emifbYy0DkCiXYFEkYc4_g@mail.gmail.com/>, 
and I replied to your earlier message concerning this matter, cf. 
<https://inbox.sourceware.org/binutils/a1c5693a-2943-ecb6-030c-ae59a5f3e59b@redhat.com/>, 
soliciting feedback from other members of the binutils community.  No one 
seemed to share your concerns, the change has been approved and I fail to 
see why the options would be confusing.  It's up to the user to know their 
tools and these options have been fully documented.

  Maciej