Release Notes

A huge release with more than 250 commits since 0.3.0. We've also had several new contributors,
which is awesome.

• Wild now supports aarch64 on Linux (marxin)
• Support for TLSDESC (marxin)
• Linker diff mostly rewritten. Now gives much less false positives and diffs more stuff.
  (davidlattimore)
• Added support for --sysroot (mati865)
• Added support for --whole-archive (riverbl)
• Added support for -z nocopyreloc (davidlattimore)
• Added support for references to versioned symbols (davidlattimore)
• Added support declaring default symbol versions via '@@' in symbol names (davidlattimore)
• Added support for RELRO (inflation)
• Report errors on undefined symbols (mati865)
• Allow --version to be specified with regular linker arguments (inflation)
• Detect objects built for wrong architecture and report proper error (inflation)
• Keep sections if __start_/__stop_{SEC} is referenced. Fixes linkme crate (davidlattimore)
• Improved performance of string merging, which affects debug info link time (davidlattimore,
  marxin)
• Remove unnecessary and unwanted copy relocations (davidlattimore)
• Emit debug symbols for copy relocations (davidlattimore)
• Demangle symbol names in various error messages (davidlattimore, marxin)
• Improve error message when an absolute relocation is used against a read-only section with a
  relocatable output (davidlattimore)
• Handle initialisers / destructors in .ctors.* / .dtors.* (davidlattimore)
• Added flag --update-in-place (davidlattimore)
• Fixed referenced to merged strings in relocatable binaries (davidlattimore)
• Optimise x86-64 jmp instructions to bypass GOT (mati865)
• Ignore or warn on various flags that we don't yet support (marxin)
• Don't strip .debug_ sections if they have the alloc flag set (davidlattimore)
• Lots of improvements to testing (marxin, mati865, davidlattimore)
• Fixed link error if a shared object had a strong reference to a symbol defined by a discarded
  archive entry (davidlattimore)
• We should now be publishing to crates.io, so tools like cargo-binstall should work.
• Numerous bugfixes

wild-linker 0.4.0

Install wild-linker 0.4.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild/releases/download/0.4.0/wild-linker-installer.sh | sh

Download wild-linker 0.4.0

linker-diff 0.4.0

Install linker-diff 0.4.0

Install prebuilt binaries via shell script

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/davidlattimore/wild/releases/download/0.4.0/linker-diff-installer.sh | sh

Download linker-diff 0.4.0