Landing: 52425b400c35

Project / Subsystem

binutils / binutils/ld

Date

2026-09-23

Author

Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>

Commit

52425b400c35c46029c2f2f1ffe19199250030c1

Source

public_inbox

Perf win

No

Breaking

No

All attributes

project
binutils
subsystem
binutils/ld
patch_id
—
commit_hash
52425b400c35c46029c2f2f1ffe19199250030c1
source_type
public_inbox
headline
Remove MAP support from linker scripts
tldr
Removes the undocumented and unimplemented MAP keyword from linker scripts.
author
Alan Modra <amodra@sourceware.org>
outcome
committed
performance_win
false
breaking_change
false
series_id
—
series_parts
[]
tags
  • • linker
  • • scripting
  • • cleanup
discussion_id_link
public_inbox:binutils#34670
bugzilla_pr
—
date
2026-09-23T00:00:00.000Z

The MAP keyword in linker scripts has been removed as it was undocumented and never implemented. This cleanup removes unused parsing logic and associated code, simplifying the linker’s language support.