lld 19.0.0git Release Notes

Warning

These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 19.0.0git release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on the Download Page.

Introduction

This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release 19.0.0git. Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.

Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

ELF Improvements

  • --compress-sections <section-glib>=[none|zlib|zstd] is added to compress matched output sections without the SHF_ALLOC flag. (#84855)

Breaking changes

COFF Improvements

MinGW Improvements

MachO Improvements

WebAssembly Improvements

Fixes