Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Gold (linker)" in English language version.
It is a GNU program, and therefore follows the GNU formatting standards[...]
eu-elflint has a flag '--gnu-ld' described as "Binary has been created with GNU ld and is therefore known to be broken in certain ways". Note that by GNU ld the original GNU binutils ld is meant, not the newer GNU binutils gold linker.