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In software engineering , gold is a linker for ELF files .. linker. linker ( computing ). ELF. Executable and Linkable Format. It became an official GNU package and was added to binutils in March , 2008 and first released in binutils version 2.19 .. GNU. GNU. GNU package. GNU package. binutils. binutils. Gold was developed by Ian Lance Taylor and a small team at Google .. Google. Google. The motivation for writing gold was to make a linker that is faster than the GNU linker , especially for large applications coded in C++ .. GNU. GNU. linker. linker ( computing ). GNU linker. GNU linker. applications. Application software. Unlike the GNU linker , gold does n't use the BFD library to process object files .. GNU. GNU. linker. linker ( computing ). GNU linker. GNU linker. BFD library. Binary File Descriptor library. object files. object files. While this limits the object file formats it can process to ELF only , it is also claimed to result in a cleaner and faster implementation without an additional abstraction layer .. ELF. Executable and Linkable Format. The author cited complete removal of BFD as a reason to create a new linker from scratch rather than incrementally improve the GNU linker .. GNU. GNU. linker. linker ( computing ). GNU linker. GNU linker. To specify gold in a makefile , one sets the LD or LD environmental variable to ld.gold .. makefile. Make ( software ). LD environmental variable. Environment variable. To specify gold through a compiler option , one can use the option gcc 's - fuse-ld = gold .. compiler option. Compiler