staging/stintel/tools/mold, branch master

mold: Update to 2.40.4

2025-08-25T08:30:14Z

Update mold to 2.40.4 Release notes: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.40.4 https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.40.3 https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.40.2 Signed-off-by: Carsten Schuette Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/19846 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

mold: Update to 2.40.1

2025-07-08T11:40:31Z

Update mold to 2.40.1 Release notes: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.40.1 https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.40.0 Signed-off-by: Carsten Schuette Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/19339 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/mold: remove static only dependencies

2025-05-24T09:25:29Z

It seems that MOLD_MOSTLY_STATIC was required before to avoid packaging every single dependency. But nowadays, mold uses whatever dependency it can find and builds its own if it cannot. Saves a small amount of compilation time. Signed-off-by: Rosen Penev Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18881 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

mold: update to 2.39.1

2025-05-21T12:47:11Z

Update to latest mold linker version 2.39.1. Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18865 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

mold: update to 2.38.1

2025-05-02T12:59:47Z

https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.38.0 https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.38.1 Signed-off-by: Carsten Schuette Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18679 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

mold: update to 2.37.1

2025-04-23T20:01:06Z

mold has seen a bunch of bugfixes and improvements since 2.33.0, so lets update it. Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/18575 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

toolchain: mold: Update to 2.33.0

2024-08-08T15:19:43Z

Update mold to 2.33.0 Link: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.33.0 Signed-off-by: Carsten Schuette Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/16048 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools: mold: update to 2.31.0

2024-05-09T08:45:29Z

New: - mold is now up to 10% faster when linking very large, debug info-enabled executables such as Blender (~1.8 GiB) or Clang (~3.8 GiB), thanks to several improvements we've made to the string merging algorithm. (53ebcd8, d714301, 40f6b17, c9faf3d) - -z start-stop-visibility=hidden is now supported so that linker-synthesized __start_ and __stop_ symbols can be completely hidden from other ELF modules. Previously, only -z start-stop-visibility=protected was supported. (99a5b15) - -Bsymbolic-non-weak and -Bsymbolic-non-weak-functions options are now supported for compatibility with LLVM lld. Just like lld, these options control which symbols are exported as dynamic symbols. -Bsymbolic-non-weak makes the linker to export only weak symbols, whereas -Bsymbolic-non-weak-functions makes it to export only weak function symbols. (7d17aa8) Bug fixes and compatibility improvements: - Previously, if a linker script contains a newline character in the beginning four bytes of a file, it was not recognized as a linker script by mold. Now, mold allows newlines at the beginning of a file. (ea054cc) - Under rare circumstances, the INPUT linker script command may have found a different file than GNU ld would. Now, mold's behavior aligns with GNU ld's. (163975d) - Previously, the --repro option produced corrupted tar files. Now the bug has been fixed. (32c4a09) - mold generally guarantees that its output is reproducible, meaning that if you run the linker with the exact same command line options and input files, the output is guaranteed to be bit-for-bit identical to the previous outputs. However, under rare circumstances, it might produce different output due to a bug. It's reported that this nondeterminism caused random crashes for some programs (#1247). This bug has been fixed. (6463a7c) - mold no longer sets the address of the .text section as the entry point address if --entry option is not given, just like LLVM lld. (020b1a7) - [RISC-V] __global_pointer$ symbol is now exported from executables as required by the processor-specific ABI. (3df7c8e) - [ARM32] --long-plt option is now recognized as known option by mold. mold ignores the option, though, because the PLTs generated by our linker is always long. (d432e98) Release Notes: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.31.0 Signed-off-by: Sean Khan Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/15403 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools: mold: update to 2.30.0

2024-04-16T19:52:57Z

Release Notes: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.3.3 https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.4.0 https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.4.1 https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.30.0 Signed-off-by: Robert Marko

tools/mold: update to 2.3.2

2023-12-04T12:24:50Z

Release Notes: https://github.com/rui314/mold/releases/tag/v2.3.2 Signed-off-by: Nick Hainke