llvm-project/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
Fangrui Song 7c7702b318 [ELF] Move section assignment from initializeSymbols to postParse
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/parallel-input-file-parsing/60164

initializeSymbols currently sets Defined::section and handles non-prevailing
COMDAT groups. Move the code to the parallel postParse to reduce work from the
single-threading code path and make parallel section initialization infeasible.

Postpone reporting duplicate symbol errors so that the messages have the
section information. (`Defined::section` is assigned in postParse and another
thread may not have the information).

* duplicated-synthetic-sym.s: BinaryFile duplicate definition (very rare) now
  has no section information
* comdat-binding: `%t/w.o %t/g.o` leads to an undesired undefined symbol. This
  is not ideal but we report a diagnostic to inform that this is unsupported.
  (See release note)
* comdat-discarded-lazy.s: %tdef.o is unextracted. The new behavior (discarded
  section error) makes more sense
* i386-comdat.s: switched to a better approach working around
  .gnu.linkonce.t.__x86.get_pc_thunk.bx in glibc<2.32 for x86-32.
  Drop the ancient no-longer-relevant workaround for __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx

Depends on D120640

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120626
2022-03-15 19:24:41 -07:00

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===========================
lld |release| Release Notes
===========================
.. contents::
:local:
.. only:: PreRelease
.. warning::
These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM |release| release.
Release notes for previous releases can be found on
`the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release |release|.
Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements
from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
ELF Improvements
----------------
* ``-z pack-relative-relocs`` is now available to support ``DT_RELR`` for glibc 2.36+.
(`D120701 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D120701>`_)
Breaking changes
----------------
* The GNU ld incompatible ``--no-define-common`` has been removed.
* The obscure ``-dc``/``-dp`` options have been removed.
* ``-d`` is now ignored.
* If a prevailing COMDAT group defines STB_WEAK symbol, having a STB_GLOBAL symbol in a non-prevailing group is now rejected with a diagnostic.
(`D120626 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D120626>`_)
COFF Improvements
-----------------
* Added autodetection of MSVC toolchain, a la clang-cl. Also added /winsysroot
support for explicit specification of MSVC toolchain location.
(`D118070 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D118070>`_)
* ...
MinGW Improvements
------------------
* ...
MachO Improvements
------------------
* Item 1.
WebAssembly Improvements
------------------------