* The --package-metadata=<string> option has been added to embed a given string
into the .note.package section. This option is designed for build scripts that
generate binary packages, such as .rpm or .deb, to include package metadata in
each executable. It simplifies the process of identifying the corresponding
package for a given executable or core file. (7ddc8f4)
* [ARM][PowerPC] We've improved the algorithm for creating range extension thunks
to reduce memory usage and improve speed. For example, linking clang-19 for
ARM64 is now ~7% faster than before. (9fc0ace)
* [RISC-V][LoongArch] We've improved the algorithm for code-shrinking linker
relaxation to reduce memory usage and improve speed. For example, linking
clang-19 for RISC-V is now ~4% faster than before. (3234d88)
* mold created a bad relocation for an IFUNC if the linker's output file type was
a shared library and the symbol was exported. This bug could cause a
segmentation fault of a linked program. The problem has now been fixed.
(a297859)
* [RISC-V] mold could produce incorrect code as a result of code-shrinking
relaxation for the R_RISCV_HI20 relocation. That type of relocation was used
rarely because it is not PC-relative. That being said, if your program used the
relocation, and the relocation targets were at a low address (from 0x1f800 to
0x20000), your program would crash at runtime due to the linker's bug. The issue
has now been resolved. (eec3f6b)
* [RISC-V][LoongArch] When the linker removed instructions from a function as a
result of code-shrinking relaxation, the function symbol's size in the output
file should be updated to reflect the result of relaxation, even though doing it
is mostly cosmetic. mold did not do that. Now, mold sets correct sizes to output
function symbols. (e6345d5)
* [LoongArch] Binaries linked with mold now work on 64 KiB page systems.
Previously, only up to 16 KiB pages were supported. (2d7b6b2)
* [s390x] The s390x processor-specific ABI requires the linker to reserve the
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools:compiler/mold?expand=0&rev=136
* mold guarantees that outputs are reproducible, meaning that if you provide the
exact same set of input files and command-line options to the same version of
mold, the output is assured to be byte-for-byte identical. However, there was a
bug where the --icf option caused outputs to be indeterministic, even though all
possible outputs were logically correct (#1377). This issue has now been
resolved. (2a78b1b)
* [RISC-V] Support for obsolete GP-relative relocations has been removed. These
relocations were ratified (riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc@d49e480) but then
removed (riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc@ad02546) from the processor-specific
ABI. There are no known real-world use cases for these relocations. (04066d1)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools:compiler/mold?expand=0&rev=134
