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Mold 2.38 Linker Adds Support For LLVM's CREL Format

([Programming] 6 Hours Ago Mold 2.38 Linker)


Mold 2.38 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to this open-source, high-speed linker.

The most notable feature of Mold 2.38 is introducing experimental support for CREL, the experimental relocation table format currently being developed within the LLVM tree. CREL was originally known as RELLEB and is a compact relocation format for ELF files. CREL is much more efficient than the likes of REL and RELA for ELF files. Mold 2.38 adds initial support for reading object files with the CREL relocation tables.

Meanwhile for enhancing compatibility with the GNU LD linker, Mold 2.38 adds support for the --audit and --depaudit options.

Mold continues in popularity as a hell of a fast linker compared to those from the GNU and LLVM projects:

The Mold 2.38 linker also has various bug fixes and other minor enhancements. More details on the Mold 2.38 linker release via [1]GitHub .



[1] https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.38.0


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