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Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/devel/mold
From: Frederic Cambus
Date: 2022-10-21 08:17:04
Message id: 20221021061704.E875DFA90@cvs.NetBSD.org
Log Message:
mold: update to 1.6.0.
New features:
- [ppc64] mold now supports the original 64-bit big-endian PowerPC ABI
(which is also known as PPC64 ELFv1 or just ppc64), so that you can
build applications for older PPC64 systems with mold. Note that this
should not be confused with the modern PPC64 ELFv2 ABI (which is also
known as ppc64le), which is already supported by mold.
- [s390x] Linux/s390x is now supported. Linux/s390x is the Linux
environment on IBM z/Architecture mainframes. I've personally never
seen a mainframe, but we wanted to support it because many Linux
distros actively support that target, which in turn means there are
many enterprise users who are using IBM mainframes. Speaking of the
porting effort, we do not only port our linker to s390x but also found
a couple of issues with the existing GCC toolchain for s390x. So, we
are improving the whole IBM mainframe ecosystem!
- mold now creates smaller output files. It is most noticeable on targets
with large page sizes such as PPC64 (on which the common page size is
64 KiB), but even on x86-64, it should save a few kilobytes per an
output file.
Bug fixes and compatibility improvements:
- [arm64] mold can now link executables with -static-pie. Previously,
executables linked with that flag crashed immediately.
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