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diff --git a/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index baac14fc9be5..0f15ee92cc8b 100644 --- a/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -10,15 +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, COFF and MinGW 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. 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. Mach-O 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 ================================================= @@ -97,6 +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``, |