Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2017 14:40:58 +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: r314264 - vendor/lld/dist/docs Message-ID: <201702251440.v1PEewhq087284@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: dim Date: Sat Feb 25 14:40:58 2017 New Revision: 314264 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314264 Log: Vendor import of lld release_40 branch r296202: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/lld/branches/release_40@296202 Modified: vendor/lld/dist/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Modified: vendor/lld/dist/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst ============================================================================== --- vendor/lld/dist/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Sat Feb 25 14:40:54 2017 (r314263) +++ vendor/lld/dist/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst Sat Feb 25 14:40:58 2017 (r314264) @@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ LLD 4.0.0 Release Notes .. contents:: :local: -.. warning:: - These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 4.0.0 release. - Introduction ============ @@ -15,7 +12,7 @@ LLD is a linker which supports ELF (Unix (macOS). It is generally faster than the GNU BFD/gold linkers or the MSVC linker. -LLD is designed to be a drop-in replacmenet for the system linkers, so +LLD is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the system linkers, so that users don't need to change their build systems other than swapping the linker command. @@ -49,17 +46,17 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: but the source location of unresolved symbols. * Error messages are printed in red just like Clang by default. You - can disable it by passing -no-color-diagnostics. + can disable it by passing ``-no-color-diagnostics``. * LLD's version string is now embedded in a .comment section in the result output file. You can dump it with this command: ``objdump -j -s .comment <file>``. -* The -Map option is supported. With that, you can print out section +* The ``-Map`` option is supported. With that, you can print out section and symbol information to a specified file. This feature is useful for analyzing link results. -* The file format for the -reproduce option has changed from cpio to +* The file format for the ``-reproduce`` option has changed from cpio to tar. * When creating a copy relocation for a symbol, LLD now scans the @@ -67,8 +64,8 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: space for the copy relocation is reserved in .bss.rel.ro instead of .bss. This fixes a security issue that read-only data in a DSO becomes writable if it is copied by a copy relocation. This issue - was disclosed originally on the binutils mailing list at - `<https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00914.html>`. + was disclosed originally on the + `binutils mailing list <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-12/msg00914.html>`_. * Compressed input sections are supported. @@ -76,7 +73,7 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: ``-Ttext``, ``-b binary``, ``-build-id=uuid``, ``-no-rosegment``, ``-nopie``, ``-nostdlib``, ``-omagic``, ``-retain-symbols-file``, ``-sort-section``, ``-z max-page-size`` and ``-z wxneeded`` are - suppoorted. + supported. * A lot of linker script directives have been added. @@ -84,15 +81,15 @@ Other notable changes are listed below: 0x200000 to make it huge-page friendly. * ARM port now supports GNU ifunc, the ARM C++ exceptions ABI, TLS - relocations and static linking. Problems with dlopen() on systems + relocations and static linking. Problems with ``dlopen()`` on systems using eglibc fixed. * MIPS port now supports input files in new R6 revision of MIPS ABIs or N32 ABI. Generated file now contains .MIPS.abiflags section and complete set of ELF headers flags. -* Relocations produced by the ``-mxgot`` compiler's flag is supported - for MIPS. Now it is possible to generate "large" GOT exceeds 64K +* Relocations produced by the ``-mxgot`` compiler flag is supported + for MIPS. Now it is possible to generate "large" GOT that exceeds the 64K limit. COFF Improvements
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