Gold (linker)

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Gold
Developed by Ian Lance Taylor
OS GNU
Genre Linker
License GNU General Public License

Gold is a linker for ELF files. It was added to binutils March, 2008[1][2], and has not yet become a part of a binutils release. Gold was developed by Ian Lance Taylor of Google[3]. The motivation for writing gold was to make a linker that is faster than the GNU linker[3], especially for large applications coded in C++.

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  1. ^ binutils cvs repository
  2. ^ binutils mailing list
  3. ^ a b Google's release note
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