Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 15:53:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org> To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-vendor@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r338721 - vendor/lld/dist-release_70/docs Message-ID: <201809171553.w8HFrJL3054405@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: dim Date: Mon Sep 17 15:53:18 2018 New Revision: 338721 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/338721 Log: Vendor import of lld 7.0.0 release r342383: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lld/tags/RELEASE_700/final@342383 Modified: vendor/lld/dist-release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Modified: vendor/lld/dist-release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst ============================================================================== --- vendor/lld/dist-release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Mon Sep 17 15:53:14 2018 (r338720) +++ vendor/lld/dist-release_70/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Mon Sep 17 15:53:18 2018 (r338721) @@ -10,15 +10,25 @@ 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 ================================================= @@ -95,6 +105,8 @@ COFF Improvements * Sped up PDB file creation. * 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``,
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