GNU Binutils 2.35 Preparing For Release

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNU Binutils 2.35 Preparing For Release

Binutils 2.35 was branched this weekend as this important component to the open-source Linux ecosystem...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=GNU-Binutils-2.35-Branched

[Candy]

A step forward to this leading Binutils thingy towards GNU Binutils 2.36. Speed comparisons between Binutils and hot air has shown, that hot air is 10,3217% faster. Now with flatpak support.

[Brane215]

SDo, not much new except for bug fixes. Currently gold linker fails with linux kernel -or at least kernel checks in makefile excldue it from compiling and fail.

Has this been fixed with new version ?

[pal666]

SDo, not much new except for bug fixes. Currently gold linker fails with linux kernel -or at least kernel checks in makefile excldue it from compiling and fail.

Has this been fixed with new version ?

gold was created by google and google no longer maintains it

[Brane215]

gold was created by google and google no longer maintains it

WTF ? Isn't it supposed to be vastly better and faster than BFD ? What happened ?
And, if it is abandoned, why is it still there ?

Moreover, what are we supposed to use as faster bfd alternative now ?

AFAIK lld ain't it, since it cuts some shortcuts that can be important in some cases...

[pal666]

WTF ? Isn't it supposed to be vastly better and faster than BFD ? What happened ?

maybe google switched to lld for their usecase

And, if it is abandoned, why is it still there ?

it's already in a separate package in fedora https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/BINUTILS_GOLD

Moreover, what are we supposed to use as faster bfd alternative now ?

i'm using ld.bfd

[wizard69]

gold was created by google and google no longer maintains it

Isn't that what happens to just about everything Google? Google has the attention span of a 5 year old.

[FireBurn]

Gold kept breaking with the kernel, I reported the bugs a few times, but they were with the linker, not the kernel. Looks like gold has been abandoned. After the last time I reported an issue with gold patches were put together to stop gold being allowed. As gold is the default linker on my system I patch my kernel make file to use ld.bfd

There has been a lot of work getting clang and lld working with the kernel, pretty sure that'll be standard soon

[CochainComplex]

Isn't that what happens to just about everything Google? Google has the attention span of a 5 year old.

even that is better then Trump...

[zboszor]

WTF ? Isn't it supposed to be vastly better and faster than BFD ?

No, it was cutting corners to make linking faster for large project. Some of the underlying details in bfd took too much RAM when linking Chrome/Chromium.