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Re: Why is gold still beta?
- From: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus at trippelsdorf dot de>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Christoph Grüninger <foss at grueninger dot de>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 3 Apr 2015 08:56:45 +0200
- Subject: Re: Why is gold still beta?
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On 2015.04.02 at 15:21 -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> 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 Grüninger <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:
And important bugs take much too long (several months) to get fixed.
This gives the impression that gold is virtually unmaintained.
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Markus