Release Notes

A lot of fixes and new features since 0.4.0. We had 200 commits.

• Improve error message for LTO objects in archives (mati865)
• Fix setting of STATIC_TLS on non-x86-64 arch (marxin)
• linker-diff: Diff program segments (lapla-cogito)
• Fix alignment of stack segment (lapla-cogito)
• Basic linker script support #44 (davidlattimore)
  • Defining custom output sections
  • Mapping input sections to output sections
  • Defining symbols relative to sections
  • Setting the address of output sections
  • Setting alignment
  • KEEP command
  • ENTRY command
• Support for --entry flag (davidlattimore)
• Ignore some flags that we don't yet support (mati865)
• Don't error if multiple COMDAT groups define the same symbol (davidlattimore)
• Output section attributes now inherit from corresponding input section attributes (davidlattimore)
• Fix linking against protected symbols in shared objects (davidlattimore)
• Integration tests now support a test configuration file (lapla-cogito)
• Added support for -z norelro (davidlattimore)
• Fix misalignment of TLS when TDATA is absent #614 (davidlattimore)
• TLSDESC handling improvements (marxin)
• Set DF_ORIGIN and DF_1_ORIGIN when -z origin is passed (davidlattimore)
• Don't error if _start is undefined #613 (davidlattimore)
• Fix direct references to ifuncs in relocatable executables #580 (davidlattimore)
• Support -l:<name.ext> args (mati865)
• Make sure that we don't export hidden symbols #604 (davidlattimore)
• Don't emit duplicate symbol error on STB_GNU_UNIQUE #598 (davidlattimore)
• Fix dynamic relocations with non-zero addends on recent glibc #576 (davidlattimore)
• Better error reporting for duplicate symbols (lapla-cogito)
• Fix sysroot handling when sysroot indicators are not followed by a slash #590 (mati865)
• Handle symbol aliases when doing copy relocations #576 (davidlattimore)
• Fix error message if an empty linker script is provided (marxin)
• A few performance improvements (davidlattimore, mati865, marxin)
• Support outputting versioned symbols in shared objects #41 (mati865)
• Support for --start-lib and --end-lib (davidlattimore)
• Verify that input files didn't change while we were running (davidlattimore)
• Added support for thin archives (GlowingScrewdriver)
• Don't delete old output file if it's not a regular file #546 (davidlattimore)
• Added support for --undefined #528 (davidlattimore)
• More aarch64 relaxations (marxin)

wild-linker 0.5.0

Install wild-linker 0.5.0

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linker-diff 0.5.0

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