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Mold 2.41 Linker Released With New Features & Fixes

([Programming] 3 Hours Ago Mold 2.41)


Mold 2.41 is out as the latest major update to this high performance linker and viable alternative to the linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects.

It's been quite a while since the last Mold update. We used to see Mold releases every few weeks but then back in August was the last release as Mold 2.40.4. Now, thankfully, Mold 2.41 is available with fixes and enhancements for this speedy linker. Mold 2.41 now allows building with a reduced set of supported targets via the MOLD_TARGETS CMake option, the --gdb-index performance is improved, and there is a new --zero-to-bss option to scan input data sections and convert all-zero sections into BSS.

Mold 2.41 also has improved link-time optimization (LTO) compatibility, various AArch64 / POWER / SPARC architecture specific improvements, and a wide variety of bug fixes.

Downloads and more details on the Mold 2.41 linker release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.41.0



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