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Re: Why is gold still beta?
- From: Christoph GrÃninger <foss at grueninger dot de>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 00:08:47 +0200
- Subject: Re: Why is gold still beta?
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Hi Ian,
thanks for your answer.
> I think it can come out of beta when some distro makes it the
> standard linker.
Sounds like an chicken-and-egg problem to me. Which distro will include
a beta linker as their default?
> (I'm actually not sure where it is marked as being in beta.)
I was referring to the binutils page [1]: "gold - A new, faster, ELF
only linker, still in beta test."
But in binutils/gold/README I cannot find the word beta at all.
Bye
Christoph
[1] www.gnu.org/software/binutils/
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