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GNU Gold Linker Is Deprecated & Will Be Gone For Good Without New Developers
With the recent GNU Binutils 2.44 release, one of the changes is worth calling out in its own article: the GNU Gold linker is now officially deprecated and is now being segregated to its own extra Binutils package but risks being removed all together without new developer volunteers stepping up to maintain this linker.
GNU Gold served its purpose and demonstrated much faster linking of ELF objects was possible, but it hasn't seen much development activity in years. This is because the gold linker is now deprecated and will eventually be removed unless volunteers step forward and offer to continue development and maintenance. So short of some miracle, the GNU Gold linker will likely be dropped altogether in the future without new developers wishing to maintain the code.
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