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lld |release| Release Notes
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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM |release| release.
Release notes for previous releases can be found on
`the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release |release|.
Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements
from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
ELF Improvements
----------------
* ``--print-gc-sections=<file>`` prints garbage collection section listing to a file.
(`#159706 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/159706>`_)
Breaking changes
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COFF Improvements
-----------------
MinGW Improvements
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MachO Improvements
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* ``--separate-cstring-literal-sections`` emits cstring literal sections into sections defined by their section name.
(`#158720 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/158720>`_)
* ``--tail-merge-strings`` enables tail merging of cstring literals.
(`#161262 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/161262>`_)
WebAssembly Improvements
------------------------
Fixes
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