Highlight gold deprecation on binutils frontpage
Project / Subsystem
binutils / binutils
Date
2026-07-18
Proposer
Mindy Batek <m.batek+all-hail-stallman@itkaufmann.at>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
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—/10
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- Highlight gold deprecation on binutils frontpage
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- Highlight gold deprecation on binutils frontpage
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- Suggest updating the binutils website to reflect gold linker's deprecation.
- proposer
- Mindy Batek <m.batek+all-hail-stallman@itkaufmann.at>
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- Proposed
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- proposed
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- • binutils
- • website
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- • linker
- • gold
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- date
- 2026-07-18T00:00:00.000Z
Highlight gold deprecation on binutils frontpage
Mindy Batek points out that the GNU Binutils webpage still advertises ‘gold’ as a new, faster linker, despite it being deprecated and excluded from many releases. This is misleading for users who might still consider using it.