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=========================== lld |release| Release Notes

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.. warning:: These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM |release| release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on the Download Page.

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.

Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

ELF Improvements

• --print-gc-sections=<file> prints garbage collection section listing to a file. (#159706)

Breaking changes

COFF Improvements

MinGW Improvements

MachO Improvements

• --separate-cstring-literal-sections emits cstring literal sections into sections defined by their section name. (#158720)
• --tail-merge-strings enables tail merging of cstring literals. (#161262)

WebAssembly Improvements

• The --stack-first flag is now enabled by default. The old behavior can be enabled using --no-stack-first.

Fixes