Thanks for the answer! Thanks also for your blog post on linkers https://www.airs.com/blog/archives/38 I know it is from 12 years ago. But I am behind on my reading, and it is taking me some time to catch up. And it still is an excellent introduction to what linkers do.
Yes Austin Clement's better-linker document is great. But it is nearly a year old. So I was wondering if there were any changes to plan, surprises or new insights. Austin's doc refers to your idea of a new object format for the 21st century. Has anyone developed that? As someone who has been writing linkers since 1988, (most famously the Gold linker), and who has a fair number of commits on the dev.linker branch, do you have any insights into the new linker project which would be interesting to share with the world? The new linker is probably the biggest change in 1.15. But there is surprisingly little information about it. It is almost invisible - which I suppose is a tribute to its success. But are there any talks about the new linker which are worth watching? - Amnon On Sunday, 16 August 2020 05:46:53 UTC+1, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:49 AM Amnon <amn...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > > What is the best place to read about the ongoing work on the new linker? > > With the Go 1.15 release, how far along are we with the plans? > > What has been achieved? > > And what is still to come? > > The work on the new linker is close to complete and has been merged > into tip for the future 1.16 release (although 1.16 won't be released > until next February). The work is as described at > https://golang.org/s/better-linker. > > Ian > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/68ebe380-90ec-4eea-8137-164d87fe0c7ao%40googlegroups.com.
