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authorDimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>2018-09-17 15:53:18 +0000
committerDimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>2018-09-17 15:53:18 +0000
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Vendor import of lld 7.0.0 release r342383:vendor/lld/lld-release_700-r342383
Notes
Notes: svn path=/vendor/lld/dist-release_70/; revision=338721 svn path=/vendor/lld/lld-release_700-r342383/; revision=338722; tag=vendor/lld/lld-release_700-r342383
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@@ -10,14 +10,24 @@ Introduction
lld is a high-performance linker that supports ELF (Unix), COFF (Windows),
Mach-O (macOS), MinGW and WebAssembly. lld is command-line-compatible with GNU
-linkers and Microsoft link.exe, and is significantly faster than these system
+linkers and Microsoft link.exe, and is significantly faster than the system
default linkers.
-lld 7 for ELF and COFF are production-ready. lld/ELF can build the entire
-FreeBSD/AMD64 and will be the default linker of the next version of the
-operating system. lld/COFF is being used to build popular large programs such as
-the Chrome web browser. Mach-O, MinGW and WebAssembly supports are still
-experimental.
+lld 7 for ELF, COFF and MinGW are production-ready.
+
+* lld/ELF can build the entire FreeBSD/{AMD64,ARMv7} and will be the default
+ linker of the next version of the operating system.
+
+* lld/COFF is being used to create official builds of large popular programs
+ such as Chrome and Firefox.
+
+* lld/MinGW is being used by Firefox for their MinGW builds. lld/MinGW still
+ needs a sysroot specifically built for lld, with llvm-dlltool, though.
+
+* lld/WebAssembly is used as the default (only) linker in Emscripten when using
+ the upstream LLVM compiler.
+
+* lld/Mach-O is still experimental.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
@@ -96,6 +106,8 @@ COFF Improvements
* Changed section layout to improve compatibility with link.exe.
+* `/subsystem` inference is improved to cover more corner cases.
+
* Added the following flags: ``--color-diagnostics={always,never,auto}``,
``--no-color-diagnostics``, ``/brepro``, ``/debug:full``, ``/debug:ghash``,
``/guard:cf``, ``/guard:longjmp``, ``/guard:nolongjmp``, ``/integritycheck``,