Mold 1.0 Released As A Modern High-Speed Linker Alternative To GNU Gold, LLVM LLD

[pal666]

llvm has lld, and it is where LTO happens.

gcc has no lld, so lto can't depend on lld. you are confusing llvms's variant of lto with lto

[pal666]

If your linker output goes straight to /usr/bin or /usr/lib, you have bigger problems to worry about.

i allow you to run executables from build directory. and if you don't do that, then check for open failure and fallback to rename isn't needed

[NobodyXu]

gcc has no lld, so lto can't depend on lld. you are confusing llvms's variant of lto with lto

Gcc is similar that it requires Gold linker according to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LinkTimeOptimization

To use this feature, you must be using gold as the linker and enable the use of the plugin by compiling with gcc -fuse-linker-plugin. This will shift the responsibility of driving the final stages of compilation from collect2 to gold via the linker plugin.

And lld being gold compatible, support loading gold ld’s linker plugins.

[pal666]

Gcc is similar that it requires Gold compiler according to https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LinkTimeOptimization

gcc doesn't require gold and gold is not a compiler

And lld being gold compatible, support loading gold ld’s linker plugins.

now go back and carefully read description of this "feature" which you conveniently skipped