[PATCH] D75216: [lld][ELF] Add some release notesBased on release/10.x

[Fangrui Song via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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https://reviews.llvm.org/D75216

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  lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst


Index: lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
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 * Relax MIPS ``jalr``and ``jr`` instructions marked by the ``R_MIPS_JALR``
   relocation.
-
-* Reduced size of linked MIPS binaries.
+* Alternative spellings are suggested for certain "undefined symbol" errors.
+  (`D67039 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D67039>`_)
+* New ``-z noseparate-code``, ``-z separate-code`` and ``-z separate-loadable-segments``.
+  ``-z noseparate-code`` is the default, which can reduce sizes of linked binaries by up to
+  3 maxpagesize.
+  (`D64903 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D64903>`_ `D67481 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D67481>`_)
+* ``-z force-bti`` and ``-z pac-plt`` are added for AArch64 Branch Target Identification and Pointer Authentication.
+  (`D62609 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D62609>`_)
+* ``--fix-cortex-a8`` is added to fix erratum 657417.
+  (`D67284 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D67284>`_)
+* ``-z force-ibt`` and ``-z shstk`` are added for Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology.
+  (`D59780 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D59780>`_)
+* ``PT_GNU_PROPERTY`` is added to help loaders locate the ``.note.gnu.property`` section.
+  It may be used by a future Linux kernel.
+  (`D70961 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D70961>`_)
+* ``-Ttext-segment`` is no longer supported. Its meaning was different from GNU ld's and
+  could cause subtle bugs.
+  (`D70468 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D70468>`_)
+* Range extension thunks with addens are implemented for AArch64, PowerPC32 and PowerPC64.
+  (`D70637 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D70637>`_ `D70937 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D70937>`_
+  `D73424 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D73424>`_)
+* ``R_RISCV_ALIGN`` will be errored because linker relaxation for RISC-V is not supported.
+  Pass ``-mno-relax`` to disable ``R_RISCV_ALIGN``.
+  (`D71820 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D71820>`_)
+* The ARM port will not insert interworking thunks for non STT_FUNC symbols.
+  (`D73474 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D73474>`_)
+* The quality of PowerPC32 port has been greatly improved (canonical PLT, copy
+  relocations, non-preemptible IFUNC, range extension thunks with addends).
+  It can link most of FreeBSD 13.0 userland.
+* lld creates a RO PT_LOAD and a RX PT_LOAD without a linker script.
+  lld creates a unified RX PT_LOAD with a linker script.
+  A future release will eliminate this difference and use a RO PT_LOAD and a RX PT_LOAD by default.
+  The linker script case will require ``--no-rosegment`` to restore the current behavior.
+* GNU style compressed debug sections ``.zdebug`` are supported by input files, but not for the output.
+  A future release may delete ``.zdebug`` support.
 
 COFF Improvements
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