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Sam Clegg 6c84dd7b1c [lld][WebAssembly] Default to --stack-first (#166998)
The really painful part of this PR was updating all the test files. I
had some help from Gemini GLI there
which did a pretty good job (got maybe 80% of the updates done).

Fixes: #151015
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===========================
lld |release| Release Notes
===========================
.. contents::
:local:
.. only:: PreRelease
.. warning::
These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM |release| release.
Release notes for previous releases can be found on
`the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release |release|.
Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements
from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
ELF Improvements
----------------
* ``--print-gc-sections=<file>`` prints garbage collection section listing to a file.
(`#159706 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/159706>`_)
Breaking changes
----------------
COFF Improvements
-----------------
MinGW Improvements
------------------
MachO Improvements
------------------
* ``--separate-cstring-literal-sections`` emits cstring literal sections into sections defined by their section name.
(`#158720 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/158720>`_)
* ``--tail-merge-strings`` enables tail merging of cstring literals.
(`#161262 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/161262>`_)
WebAssembly Improvements
------------------------
* The ``--stack-first`` flag is now enabled by default. The old
behavior can be enabled using ``--no-stack-first``.
Fixes
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