1======================== 2lld 14.0.0 Release Notes 3======================== 4 5.. contents:: 6 :local: 7 8.. warning:: 9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 14.0.0 release. 10 Release notes for previous releases can be found on 11 `the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_. 12 13Introduction 14============ 15 16This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release 14.0.0. 17Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements 18from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded 19from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_. 20 21Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release 22================================================= 23 24ELF Improvements 25---------------- 26 27* ``--export-dynamic-symbol-list`` has been added. 28 (`D107317 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D107317>`_) 29* ``--why-extract`` has been added to query why archive members/lazy object files are extracted. 30 (`D109572 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D109572>`_) 31* ``e_entry`` no longer falls back to the address of ``.text`` if the entry symbol does not exist. 32 Instead, a value of 0 will be written. 33 (`D110014 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D110014>`_) 34 35Architecture specific changes: 36 37* The x86-32 port now supports TLSDESC (``-mtls-dialect=gnu2``). 38 (`D112582 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D112582>`_) 39* For x86-64, ``--no-relax`` now suppresses ``R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX`` and 40 ``R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX`` GOT optimization 41 (`D113615 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D113615>`_) 42 43Breaking changes 44---------------- 45 46* ... 47 48COFF Improvements 49----------------- 50 51* ... 52 53MinGW Improvements 54------------------ 55 56* ... 57 58MachO Improvements 59------------------ 60 61* Item 1. 62 63WebAssembly Improvements 64------------------------ 65 66