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Re: Why is gold still beta?
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: Christoph GrÃninger <foss at grueninger dot de>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 15:21:11 -0700
- Subject: Re: Why is gold still beta?
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On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Christoph GrÃninger <foss@grueninger.de> wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> I am wondering why gold is still marked as in beta testing. It was added
>> to binutils seven years ago.
>> Is there a reason for this? What is missing? Are there plans to release
>> it as a proper part of binuitls without being beta?
>
> I think it can come out of beta when some distro makes it the standard linker.
>
> (I'm actually not sure where it is marked as being in beta.)
Gold still can't generate working glibc:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18102
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H.J.