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    DragonFlyBSD Switches To Gold Linker By Default

    Phoronix: DragonFlyBSD Switches To Gold Linker By Default

    DragonFlyBSD has switched to using the Gold Linker by default rather than GNU ld...

    DragonFlyBSD Switches To Gold Linker By Default - Phoronix
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    Is there any recent work being done towards achieving the same with the Linux kernel? AFAIK, successfully linking it with gold is still very much trial and error.

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      Not for the past 3 years. The only remaining issue is building on arm with CONFIG_VDSO enabled. But even then the build system will use ld.bfd if available, so making gold the default on a Linux distribution is safe as far as the kernel is concerned.

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