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252b5132 | 1 | -*- text -*- |
2c610e4b | 2 | |
2425a30e NC |
3 | * Add support for locating separate debug info files using the build-id |
4 | method, where the separate file has a name based upon the build-id of | |
5 | the original file. | |
6 | ||
9703a4ef TG |
7 | Changes in 2.28: |
8 | ||
08dc996f AM |
9 | * This version of binutils fixes a problem with PowerPC VLE 16A and 16D |
10 | relocations which were functionally swapped, for example, | |
11 | R_PPC_VLE_HA16A performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16D while R_PPC_VLE_HA16D | |
12 | performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16A. This could have been fixed by | |
13 | renumbering relocations, which would keep object files created by an | |
14 | older version of gas compatible with a newer ld. However, that would | |
15 | require an ABI update, affecting other assemblers and linkers that | |
16 | create and process the relocations correctly. It is recommended that | |
17 | all VLE object files be recompiled, but ld can modify the relocations | |
18 | if --vle-reloc-fixup is passed to ld. If the new ld command line | |
19 | option is not used, ld will ld warn on finding relocations inconsistent | |
20 | with the instructions being relocated. | |
21 | ||
22 | * The nm program has a new command line option (--with-version-strings) | |
df2c87b5 NC |
23 | which will display a symbol's version information, if any, after the |
24 | symbol's name. | |
25 | ||
37fd5ef3 CZ |
26 | * The ARC port of objdump now accepts a -M option to specify the extra |
27 | instruction class(es) that should be disassembled. | |
28 | ||
e511c9b1 AB |
29 | * The --remove-section option for objcopy and strip now accepts section |
30 | patterns starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching | |
31 | section. A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections | |
32 | matched by an earlier --remove-section pattern. | |
33 | ||
34 | * The --only-section option for objcopy now accepts section patterns | |
35 | starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching section. | |
36 | A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections matched by | |
37 | an earlier --only-section pattern. | |
38 | ||
d3e5f6c8 AB |
39 | * New --remove-relocations=SECTIONPATTERN option for objcopy and strip. |
40 | This option can be used to remove sections containing relocations. | |
41 | The SECTIONPATTERN is the section to which the relocations apply, not | |
42 | the relocation section itself. | |
43 | ||
96a84ea3 TG |
44 | Changes in 2.27: |
45 | ||
e6cc316a L |
46 | * Add a configure option, --enable-64-bit-archive, to force use of a |
47 | 64-bit format when creating an archive symbol index. | |
48 | ||
b8871f35 L |
49 | * Add --elf-stt-common= option to objcopy for ELF targets to control |
50 | whether to convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type. | |
51 | ||
7feec526 TG |
52 | Changes in 2.26: |
53 | ||
2b35fb28 RH |
54 | * Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file: |
55 | --add-symbol <name>=[<section>:]<value>[,<flags>] | |
56 | ||
886a2506 NC |
57 | * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. |
58 | ||
ea556d25 L |
59 | * Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support |
60 | --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF | |
61 | targets. | |
62 | ||
acf1419f AB |
63 | * Add --update-section option to objcopy. |
64 | ||
55edd97b EA |
65 | * Add --output-separator option to strings. |
66 | ||
c50415e2 TG |
67 | Changes in 2.25: |
68 | ||
7fac9594 NC |
69 | * Add --data option to strings to only print strings in loadable, initialized |
70 | data sections. Change the default behaviour to be --all, but add a new | |
71 | configure time option of --disable-default-strings-all to restore the old | |
72 | default behaviour. | |
73 | ||
334ac421 EA |
74 | * Add --include-all-whitespace to strings. |
75 | ||
bbad633b NC |
76 | * Add --dump-section option to objcopy. |
77 | ||
35c08157 KLC |
78 | * Add support for the Andes NDS32. |
79 | ||
58ca03a2 TG |
80 | Changes in 2.24: |
81 | ||
2e62b721 NC |
82 | * Objcopy now supports wildcard characters in command line options that take |
83 | section names. | |
84 | ||
36591ba1 SL |
85 | * Add support for Altera Nios II. |
86 | ||
af18cb59 TG |
87 | Changes in 2.23: |
88 | ||
b9c361e0 JL |
89 | * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture. |
90 | ||
9a30f236 KT |
91 | * Add support for x64 Windows target of the delayed-load-library. |
92 | ||
99c513f6 DD |
93 | * Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture. |
94 | ||
a7142d94 TG |
95 | Changes in 2.22: |
96 | ||
4ccf1e31 JJ |
97 | * Add support for displaying the contents of .debug.macro sections. |
98 | ||
ec25acb3 NC |
99 | * Add --preprocessor-arg option to windres to specify additional options |
100 | passed to preprocessor. | |
44f45767 | 101 | |
fd2f0033 TT |
102 | * Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump. These are used by |
103 | the new Emacs mode, see dwarf-mode.el. | |
104 | ||
69f56ae1 WL |
105 | * Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures. |
106 | ||
107 | changes in 2.21: | |
44f45767 | 108 | |
b7dd81f7 NC |
109 | * Add --interleave-width option to objcopy to allowing copying a range of |
110 | bytes from the input to the output with the --interleave option. | |
111 | ||
40b36596 JM |
112 | * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family. |
113 | ||
0b6ae522 DJ |
114 | * Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using |
115 | the -u / --unwind option. | |
116 | ||
2c610e4b L |
117 | * Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table. |
118 | ||
d2420a8c NC |
119 | * A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format |
120 | binaries. | |
81c23f82 | 121 | |
bf201fdd KT |
122 | * Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by |
123 | '== <ID>' option. | |
124 | ||
be6f6493 TG |
125 | * Add a new command line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the |
126 | address before function name or source filename. | |
127 | ||
68cdf72f TG |
128 | * Add a new command line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have |
129 | a more human readable output. | |
130 | ||
75875724 TG |
131 | * The hppa/som targets can now be compiled on any host. |
132 | ||
81c23f82 TG |
133 | Changes in 2.20: |
134 | ||
10e636d2 DK |
135 | * Add support for delay importing to dlltool. Use the --output-delaylib <file> |
136 | switch to create a delay-import library. The resulting app will load the dll | |
137 | as soon as the first function is called. It will link to __delayLoadHelper2() | |
138 | from the static delayimp library, which will import LoadLibraryA and | |
139 | GetProcAddress from kernel32. | |
140 | ||
3dcb3fcb | 141 | * Add a new command line option, --insn-width=WIDTH, to objdump to specify |
10e636d2 DK |
142 | number of bytes to be displayed on a single line when disassembling |
143 | instructions. | |
3dcb3fcb | 144 | |
cf13d699 NC |
145 | * Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence |
146 | of bytes via the --relocated-dump=<name|number> command line option. | |
147 | ||
0e27a8f6 NC |
148 | * The gprof program has been given a new command line option: |
149 | --external-symbols-table=<filename> which reads in symbols from a specified | |
150 | file. | |
6e33da12 | 151 | |
ce3c775b NC |
152 | * The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects |
153 | used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats. | |
154 | ||
43cd3ced AG |
155 | * The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format |
156 | for objcopy. | |
c067354b | 157 | |
92dd4511 L |
158 | * Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base, --section-alignment, |
159 | --stack and --subsystem command line options to objcopy, which will | |
160 | set PE optional header. | |
161 | ||
4cb93e3b TG |
162 | * Option --dwarf/-W of objdump is now as flexible as readelf --debug-dump/-w. |
163 | ||
164 | * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined | |
165 | symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries. In the | |
166 | latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED | |
167 | entry of one of the libraries already linked. | |
168 | ||
0dafdf3f | 169 | * Added --prefix=PREFIX and --prefix-strip=LEVEL switches to objdump to |
28024d9d | 170 | add absolute paths for -S. |
0dafdf3f | 171 | |
e77b97d4 KT |
172 | * Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall- |
173 | back to old import table generation with null element prefix. | |
174 | ||
3aade688 | 175 | * Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify <implib> to |
71c57c16 NC |
176 | report an error when the import library is associated with |
177 | multiple DLLs. | |
178 | ||
179 | * Added --identify <implib> option to dlltool, which determines the | |
180 | name of the DLL associated with the specified <implib>. | |
181 | ||
2f3bb96a BE |
182 | * Support for PowerPC booke64 instructions has been removed. The assembler no |
183 | longer accepts -mbooke32 or -mbooke64 and the disassembler no longer accepts | |
184 | -Mbooke32 or -Mbooke64. Instead, -mbooke and -Mbooke should be used. | |
185 | ||
6e33da12 TG |
186 | Changes in 2.19: |
187 | ||
a262ae96 NC |
188 | * Added -wL switch to dump decoded contents of .debug_line. |
189 | ||
a8da6403 NC |
190 | * Added support for "thin" archives which contain pathnames pointing to |
191 | object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a | |
192 | flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been | |
193 | added to the archive. | |
3aade688 | 194 | |
98ec6e72 NC |
195 | * Added -F switch to objdump to include file offsets in the disassembly. |
196 | ||
4145f1d5 NC |
197 | * Added -c switch to readelf to allow string dumps of archive symbol index. |
198 | ||
85f10a01 MM |
199 | * Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port. |
200 | ||
09c11c86 NC |
201 | * Added -p switch to readelf to allow string dumps of sections. |
202 | ||
876c34bf | 203 | Changes in 2.18: |
98ec6e72 | 204 | |
ad71ef64 NC |
205 | * Resolved 37 coding problems in bfd including static array overruns, null |
206 | pointer dereferences and use of a malloc buffer after it has been freed, as | |
207 | revealed by static analysis donated by Coverity, Inc. (http://scan.coverity.com). | |
1e4cf259 | 208 | |
32866df7 NC |
209 | * The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU General |
210 | Public License. | |
211 | ||
692ed3e7 NC |
212 | * A new tool "windmc" has been added for some targets. This is a message |
213 | compiler which attempts to be compatible with the MS version. | |
214 | ||
215 | * Add codepage support to the windres tool. It now supports many new | |
216 | resource types (e.g. MANIFEST, TOOLBAR, etc). The output generation | |
217 | for binary files is done now via bfd itself. The endianess problems | |
218 | for different hosts are solved. Dumps of .res files can now be | |
219 | re-compiled by windres without lossing resources or compilation errors. | |
220 | Some problems on dialog resource translations are corrected. | |
d856f2dd | 221 | |
d3e52d40 RS |
222 | * Add --extract-symbol command line option to objcopy, which will |
223 | strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except | |
224 | for its symbol table. Files containing just symbols can be useful | |
225 | to some OSes. | |
226 | ||
32866df7 NC |
227 | Changes in 2.17: |
228 | ||
aef1f6d0 DJ |
229 | * Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER". |
230 | ||
cbf1f5df NC |
231 | * Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation |
232 | specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling | |
233 | of types. | |
234 | ||
235 | * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so | |
236 | that extra switches can be read from <file>. | |
237 | ||
4de2ad99 | 238 | * Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF |
cbf1f5df | 239 | debug sections. |
4de2ad99 | 240 | |
5477e8a0 | 241 | * Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details. |
cbf1f5df | 242 | "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated. |
5477e8a0 | 243 | |
b12fe839 AM |
244 | * powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security |
245 | conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all | |
246 | code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT | |
247 | and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt. | |
248 | ||
0c552dc1 FF |
249 | * Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information |
250 | for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function. | |
251 | ||
81fc812e L |
252 | * Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name. |
253 | ||
ec72cfe5 NC |
254 | * Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address |
255 | when disassembling VAX binaries. | |
256 | ||
7b4a0685 NC |
257 | * Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches |
258 | to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols. | |
3aade688 | 259 | |
9fbad737 | 260 | * gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for |
3aade688 | 261 | several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint. |
7b4a0685 NC |
262 | |
263 | Changes in 2.16: | |
264 | ||
b12fe839 | 265 | * Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups. |
81fc812e | 266 | |
bcf32829 JB |
267 | * objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and |
268 | --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard | |
269 | matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but | |
270 | retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations. | |
271 | ||
18bd398b NC |
272 | * readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections. This |
273 | happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered. The | |
274 | command line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display | |
275 | the contents of the .debug_range section. | |
276 | ||
3c9458e9 NC |
277 | * nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of |
278 | symbols which the target considers to be special. By default these symbols | |
279 | are no longer displayed. Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping | |
280 | symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and | |
281 | between ARM and THUMB code. | |
282 | ||
607dea97 NC |
283 | * dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional |
284 | import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them. | |
285 | ||
286 | Changes in 2.15: | |
287 | ||
e39893d7 | 288 | * objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the |
9d317d34 | 289 | disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some |
e39893d7 FF |
290 | pseudo instruction name. I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move", |
291 | "sll" instead of "nop", etc. | |
292 | ||
5fe11841 NC |
293 | * objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on |
294 | the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them. | |
295 | ||
fb52b2f4 NC |
296 | * readelf can now parse archives. |
297 | ||
51cdc6e0 NC |
298 | * objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a |
299 | format compatible with ctags tool. | |
300 | ||
ed1653a7 NC |
301 | * objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing |
302 | those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug. The idea is that | |
303 | this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create | |
304 | a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the | |
305 | debugging info. | |
306 | ||
2593f09a NC |
307 | * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink |
308 | section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug | |
50c2245b | 309 | information for the file to be held in a separate file. |
3aade688 | 310 | |
a3b6428f NC |
311 | * BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX |
312 | single-character representation. This can be checked by running nm | |
313 | with the -a switch. | |
314 | ||
43c58ae6 CD |
315 | Changes in 2.14: |
316 | ||
7c29036b NC |
317 | * Added --info switch to objcopy and strip. |
318 | ||
3b36097d SC |
319 | * Support for Vitesse IQ2000 added by Red Hat. |
320 | ||
8745eafa NC |
321 | * Added 'S' encoding to strings to allow the display of 8-bit characters. |
322 | ||
d7fb0dd2 NC |
323 | * Added --prefix-symbols=<text>, --prefix-sections=<text> and |
324 | --prefix-alloc-sections=<text> to objcopy. | |
325 | ||
84ad6ede NC |
326 | * readelf can handle the extensions to the DWARF2 spec used by the Unified |
327 | Parallel C compiler. | |
328 | ||
7d036af2 AM |
329 | * BFD no longer declares a "boolean" type, to avoid clashes with other |
330 | headers that declare the same. Users of BFD should replace boolean, | |
331 | false and true, with int, 0 and 1, or define their own boolean type. | |
332 | ||
1e4cf259 NC |
333 | * Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov. |
334 | ||
2cbb2eef NC |
335 | Changes in 2.13: |
336 | ||
337 | * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400 | |
338 | and FR500 included. | |
252b5132 | 339 | |
9a66911f NC |
340 | Changes in version 2.12: |
341 | ||
49fda6c8 HPN |
342 | * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson. |
343 | ||
15c82623 NC |
344 | * size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only). |
345 | ||
d974e256 JJ |
346 | * readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing |
347 | lines to fit into 80 columns. | |
348 | ||
d132876a NC |
349 | * strings: Add --encoding to display wide character strings. By Markus Kuhn. |
350 | ||
594ef5db NC |
351 | * objcopy: Add --rename-section to change section names. |
352 | ||
e0c60db2 NC |
353 | * readelf: Support added for DWARF 2.1 extensions. Support added for |
354 | displaying the contents of .debug.macinfo sections. | |
355 | ||
16b2b71c NC |
356 | * New command line switches added to objcopy to allow symbols to be kept as |
357 | global symbols, and also to specify files containing lists of such symbols. | |
358 | by Honda Hiroki. | |
359 | ||
87e6d782 NC |
360 | * Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg. |
361 | ||
1ae8b3d2 AO |
362 | * New command line switch to objcopy --alt-machine-code which creates a binary |
363 | with an alternate machine code if one is defined in the architecture | |
364 | description. Only supported for ELF targets. By Alexandre Oliva. | |
365 | ||
43a0748c | 366 | * New command line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets |
09ad7db3 | 367 | the architecture of the output file to the given argument. This option only |
43a0748c NC |
368 | makes sense, if the input target is binary. Otherwise it is ignored. |
369 | By Stefan Geuken. | |
370 | ||
e135f41b NC |
371 | * Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff. |
372 | ||
09ad7db3 AM |
373 | Changes in binutils 2.11: |
374 | ||
077b8428 NC |
375 | * Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM |
376 | extenstions. | |
377 | ||
378 | * Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy. | |
379 | By Luciano Gemme. | |
7d036af2 | 380 | |
156c2f8b NC |
381 | * Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander. |
382 | ||
22b36938 JE |
383 | * Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt. |
384 | ||
5bcac8a4 HPN |
385 | * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). |
386 | ||
252b5132 RH |
387 | Changes in binutils 2.10: |
388 | ||
09ad7db3 AM |
389 | * Support for 64-bit ELF on HPPA. |
390 | ||
f1563258 TW |
391 | * New command line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the |
392 | entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given | |
7d036af2 | 393 | file. |
f1563258 | 394 | |
dd92f639 NC |
395 | * New command line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes |
396 | a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the | |
397 | disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or | |
398 | raw verions. | |
7d036af2 | 399 | |
c2c40d93 ILT |
400 | * objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed |
401 | with intel syntax. | |
252b5132 RH |
402 | |
403 | * New program: readelf. This displays the contents of ELF format files, | |
404 | regardless of target machine. | |
405 | ||
406 | * objcopy now takes --change-section-lma, --change-section-vma, and | |
407 | --change-section-address options. The old --adjust-section-vma option is | |
408 | equivalent to --change-section-address. The other --adjust-* options are now | |
409 | renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work. | |
410 | ||
57938635 AM |
411 | * objcopy has a --redefine-sym option that lets you rename symbols. |
412 | ||
413 | * objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified | |
414 | sections. | |
415 | ||
252b5132 RH |
416 | * dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command. |
417 | ||
418 | * dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols, | |
419 | --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options. | |
420 | ||
421 | Changes in binutils 2.9: | |
422 | ||
423 | * Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32 | |
424 | files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT. | |
425 | ||
426 | * The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than | |
427 | the VMA of the sections. | |
428 | ||
429 | * Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table. | |
430 | ||
431 | Changes in binutils 2.8: | |
432 | ||
433 | * The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved. Use | |
434 | the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format. There are also new | |
435 | --disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler | |
436 | output. | |
437 | ||
438 | * Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets. For example, | |
439 | objdump -b i386-pc-linux. The triplets are not passed through config.sub, | |
440 | so they must be in canonical form. | |
441 | ||
442 | * Added new addr2line program. This uses the debugging information to convert | |
443 | an address into a file name and line number within a program. | |
444 | ||
445 | * Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
446 | ||
447 | * Added --weaken argument to objcopy. | |
448 | ||
449 | * objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries. | |
450 | ||
451 | * Added --adjust-vma option to objdump. | |
452 | ||
453 | * Added -C/--demangle option to objdump. | |
454 | ||
455 | * Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy. | |
456 | ||
457 | Changes in binutils 2.7: | |
458 | ||
459 | * Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure. | |
460 | ||
461 | * Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy. | |
462 | ||
463 | * Added --defined-only argument to nm. | |
464 | ||
465 | * Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
466 | ||
467 | * The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc. | |
468 | ||
469 | * Added --line-numbers option to nm. | |
470 | ||
471 | * Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump. | |
472 | ||
473 | * Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP. | |
474 | ||
475 | Changes in binutils 2.6: | |
476 | ||
477 | * Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy. | |
478 | ||
479 | * Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new | |
480 | file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit | |
481 | generating plain binary files. | |
482 | ||
483 | * Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump. | |
484 | ||
485 | * ar and ranlib now work on AIX. The tools are now built by default on AIX. | |
486 | ||
487 | Changes in binutils 2.5: | |
488 | ||
489 | * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly | |
1049f94e | 490 | listing, for a more useful listing of relocatable files. |
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491 | |
492 | * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections. | |
493 | Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections. | |
494 | ||
495 | * Added --size-sort option to nm. | |
496 | ||
497 | * strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF | |
498 | executables. | |
499 | ||
500 | Changes in binutils 2.4: | |
501 | ||
502 | * Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and | |
503 | PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor). | |
504 | ||
505 | * Support for Irix 5. | |
506 | ||
507 | * Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked | |
508 | ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly. | |
509 | ||
510 | Changes in binutils 2.3: | |
511 | ||
512 | * A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in | |
513 | ELF and COFF files. | |
514 | ||
515 | * A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into | |
516 | Novell NetWare Loadable Modules. | |
517 | ||
518 | * The strings program has been added. | |
519 | ||
520 | Changes in binutils 2.2: | |
521 | ||
522 | * The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with | |
523 | 'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for | |
524 | 'cp'. | |
525 | ||
526 | * The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded | |
527 | (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names. (Note: This | |
528 | may get moved to the gcc distribution.) | |
529 | ||
530 | * nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching | |
531 | the output from BSD nm. | |
532 | ||
533 | * ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives. | |
534 | ||
535 | * New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH. | |
536 | ||
537 | * Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb. | |
538 | ||
539 | * There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use. | |
540 | ||
541 | * There is the beginnings of a test suite. | |
542 | ||
543 | Changes in binutils 2.1: | |
544 | ||
545 | * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities | |
546 | should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. Please let us know how well this works. | |
547 | ||
548 | * ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD | |
549 | version), if there are any object files in the archive. So running ranlib is | |
550 | now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used). This is required | |
551 | for Posix.2 conformance. | |
552 | ||
553 | * The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives | |
554 | independently of the selected target format. This is to encourage people to | |
555 | switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages. | |
556 | ||
557 | * The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only | |
558 | and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options. | |
559 | ||
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563 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
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