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2lld 11.0.0 Release Notes
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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>`_.
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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
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23
24ELF Improvements
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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
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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
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46
47* Fixed exporting symbols whose names contain a period (``.``), which was
48  a regression in lld 7.
49
50MinGW Improvements
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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``).
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59MachO Improvements
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61
62* Item 1.
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64WebAssembly Improvements
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