1======================== 2lld 11.0.0 Release Notes 3======================== 4 5.. contents:: 6 :local: 7 8.. warning:: 9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 11.0.0 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 11.0.0. 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* New ``--time-trace`` option records a time trace file that can be viewed in 28 chrome://tracing. The file can be specified with ``--time-trace-file``. 29 Trace granularity can be specified with ``--time-trace-granularity``. 30 (`D71060 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D71060>`_) 31* For ARM architectures the default max page size was increased to 64k. 32 This increases compatibility with systems where a non standard page 33 size was configured. This also is inline with GNU ld defaults. 34 (`D77330 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D77330>`_) 35* ... 36 37Breaking changes 38---------------- 39 40* One-dash form of some long option (``--thinlto-*``, ``--lto-*``, ``--shuffle-sections=``) 41 are no longer supported. 42* ``--export-dynamic-symbol`` no longer implies ``-u``. 43 44COFF Improvements 45----------------- 46 47* Fixed exporting symbols whose names contain a period (``.``), which was 48 a regression in lld 7. 49 50MinGW Improvements 51------------------ 52 53* Implemented new options for disabling auto import and runtime pseudo 54 relocations (``--disable-auto-import`` and 55 ``--disable-runtime-pseudo-reloc``), the ``--no-seh`` flag and options 56 for selecting file and section alignment (``--file-alignment`` and 57 ``--section-alignment``). 58 59MachO Improvements 60------------------ 61 62* Item 1. 63 64WebAssembly Improvements 65------------------------ 66 67