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diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index 76207fec11ac..2d358bf8f246 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -28,6 +28,15 @@ ELF Improvements ``$ ld.lld --call-shared`` now prints ``unknown argument '--call-shared', did you mean '--call_shared'``. +* lld now supports replacing ``JAL`` with ``JALX`` instructions in case + of MIPS - microMIPS cross-mode jumps. + +* lld now creates LA25 thunks for MIPS R6 code. + +* Put MIPS-specific .reginfo, .MIPS.options, and .MIPS.abiflags sections + into corresponding PT_MIPS_REGINFO, PT_MIPS_OPTIONS, and PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS + segments. + * ... COFF Improvements @@ -53,6 +62,14 @@ COFF Improvements * Several speed and memory usage improvements. +* Range extension thunks are now created for ARM64, if needed + +* lld-link now supports resource object files created by GNU windres and + MS cvtres, not only llvm-cvtres + +* The generated thunks for delayimports now share the majority of code + among thunks, significantly reducing the overhead of using delayimport + * ... MinGW Improvements @@ -62,6 +79,17 @@ MinGW Improvements terminators for the sections such as .eh_frame properly, fixing DWARF exception handling with libgcc and gcc's crtend.o. +* lld now also handles DWARF unwind info generated by GCC, when linking + with libgcc + +* Many more GNU ld options are now supported, which e.g. allows the lld + MinGW frontend to be called by GCC + +* PDB output can be requested without manually specifying the PDB file + name, with the new option ``-pdb=`` with an empty value to the option. + (The old existing syntax ``-pdb <filename>`` was more cumbersome to use + with an empty parameter value.) + MachO Improvements ------------------ |