Landing: 534e9a794c4d
Project / Subsystem
binutils / PE+
Date
2026-09-04
Author
Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
Commit
534e9a794c4d63e27519ec16489de53ada7bb2fd
Source
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Perf win
Yes
Breaking
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- PE+ linker: Remove unused stdcall fixup machinery
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- Dead code related to stdcall calling convention fixups removed from the PE+ linker.
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- Jan Beulich <jbeulich@sourceware.org>
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- • linker
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- • cleanup
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- 2026-09-04T00:00:00.000Z
The PE+ (Portable Executable for 64-bit) linker has had its stdcall fixup machinery removed. This code was dead as Win64 has a single calling convention and never uses stdcall decorations. Removing it eliminates quadratic complexity in symbol table traversals and simplifies the linker code.