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40b36596 JM |
3 | * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family. |
4 | ||
31907d5e DK |
5 | * GAS now understands an extended syntax in the .section directive flags |
6 | for COFF targets that allows the section's alignment to be specified. This | |
7 | feature has also been backported to the 2.20 release series, starting with | |
8 | 2.20.1. | |
9 | ||
c7927a3c NC |
10 | * Add support for the Renesas RX processor. |
11 | ||
81c23f82 TG |
12 | Changes in 2.20: |
13 | ||
3e7a7d11 NC |
14 | * GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type |
15 | pseudo op. It marks the symbol as being globally unique in the entire | |
16 | process. | |
17 | ||
c921be7d NC |
18 | * ARM assembler now supports .inst[.nw] pseudo-ops to insert opcodes specified |
19 | in binary rather than text. | |
6e33da12 | 20 | |
c1711530 DK |
21 | * Add support for common symbol alignment to PE formats. |
22 | ||
92846e72 CC |
23 | * Add support for the new discriminator column in the DWARF line table, |
24 | with a discriminator operand for the .loc directive. | |
25 | ||
c3b7224a NC |
26 | * Add support for Sunplus score architecture. |
27 | ||
d8045f23 NC |
28 | * The .type pseudo-op now accepts a type of STT_GNU_IFUNC which can be used to |
29 | indicate that if the symbol is the target of a relocation, its value should | |
30 | not be use. Instead the function should be invoked and its result used as | |
31 | the value. | |
32 | ||
84e94c90 NC |
33 | * Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture. |
34 | ||
caa03924 ME |
35 | * Add support for Xilinx MicroBlaze architecture. |
36 | ||
6e33da12 TG |
37 | Changes in 2.19: |
38 | ||
4f6d9c90 DJ |
39 | * New pseudo op .cfi_val_encoded_addr, to record constant addresses in unwind |
40 | tables without runtime relocation. | |
41 | ||
6fd4f6cc DD |
42 | * New command line option, -h-tick-hex, for sh, m32c, and h8/300 targets, which |
43 | adds compatibility with H'00 style hex constants. | |
44 | ||
daf50ae7 L |
45 | * New command line option, -msse-check=[none|error|warning], for x86 |
46 | targets. | |
47 | ||
83f10cb2 NC |
48 | * New sub-option added to the assembler's -a command line switch to |
49 | generate a listing output. The 'g' sub-option will insert into the listing | |
50 | various information about the assembly, such as assembler version, the | |
51 | command line options used, and a time stamp. | |
52 | ||
c0f3af97 L |
53 | * New command line option -msse2avx for x86 target to encode SSE |
54 | instructions with VEX prefix. | |
55 | ||
f1f8f695 | 56 | * Add Intel XSAVE, EPT, MOVBE, AES, PCLMUL, AVX/FMA support for x86 target. |
c0f3af97 | 57 | |
ae40c993 L |
58 | * New command line options, -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mtune=CPU, |
59 | -mmnemonic=[att|intel], -msyntax=[att|intel], -mindex-reg, | |
60 | -mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc, for x86 targets. | |
61 | ||
38a57ae7 NC |
62 | * Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new |
63 | pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64. | |
64 | ||
85f10a01 MM |
65 | * Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port. |
66 | ||
7c3d153f NC |
67 | Changes in 2.18: |
68 | ||
ec2655a6 NC |
69 | * The GAS sources are now released under the GPLv3. |
70 | ||
3d3d428f NC |
71 | * Support for the National Semiconductor CR16 target has been added. |
72 | ||
3f9ce309 AM |
73 | * Added gas .reloc pseudo. This is a low-level interface for creating |
74 | relocations. | |
75 | ||
99ad8390 NC |
76 | * Add support for x86_64 PE+ target. |
77 | ||
1c0d3aa6 | 78 | * Add support for Score target. |
83518699 | 79 | |
ec2655a6 NC |
80 | Changes in 2.17: |
81 | ||
d70c5fc7 NC |
82 | * Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems. |
83 | ||
08333dc4 NS |
84 | * Support for ms2 architecture has been added. |
85 | ||
b7b8fb1d NC |
86 | * Support for the Z80 processor family has been added. |
87 | ||
3e8a519c MM |
88 | * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra |
89 | switches can be read from <file>. | |
90 | ||
37dedf66 NC |
91 | * The SH target supports a new command line switch --enable-reg-prefix which, |
92 | if enabled, will allow register names to be optionally prefixed with a $ | |
93 | character. This allows register names to be distinguished from label names. | |
94 | ||
6eaeac8a JB |
95 | * Macros with a variable number of arguments are now supported. See the |
96 | documentation for how this works. | |
97 | ||
4bdd3565 NC |
98 | * Added --reduce-memory-overheads switch to reduce the size of the hash |
99 | tables used, at the expense of longer assembly times, and | |
100 | --hash-size=<NUMBER> to set the size of the hash tables used by gas. | |
101 | ||
5e75c3ab JB |
102 | * Macro names and macro parameter names can now be any identifier that would |
103 | also be legal as a symbol elsewhere. For macro parameter names, this is | |
104 | known to cause problems in certain sources when the respective target uses | |
105 | characters inconsistently, and thus macro parameter references may no longer | |
106 | be recognized as such (see the documentation for details). | |
4bdd3565 | 107 | |
d2c5f73e NC |
108 | * Support the .f_floating, .d_floating, .g_floating and .h_floating directives |
109 | for the VAX target in order to be more compatible with the VAX MACRO | |
110 | assembler. | |
111 | ||
8c2fda1d L |
112 | * New command line option -mtune=[itanium1|itanium2] for IA64 targets. |
113 | ||
957d91c1 NC |
114 | Changes in 2.16: |
115 | ||
fffeaa5f JB |
116 | * Redefinition of macros now results in an error. |
117 | ||
91d777ee L |
118 | * New command line option -mhint.b=[ok|warning|error] for IA64 targets. |
119 | ||
970d6792 L |
120 | * New command line option -munwind-check=[warning|error] for IA64 |
121 | targets. | |
122 | ||
f1dab70d JB |
123 | * The IA64 port now uses automatic dependency violation removal as its default |
124 | mode. | |
125 | ||
7499d566 NC |
126 | * Port to MAXQ processor contributed by HCL Tech. |
127 | ||
7ed4c4c5 NC |
128 | * Added support for generating unwind tables for ARM ELF targets. |
129 | ||
329e276d NC |
130 | * Add a -g command line option to generate debug information in the target's |
131 | preferred debug format. | |
132 | ||
1fe1f39c NC |
133 | * Support for the crx-elf target added. |
134 | ||
1a320fbb | 135 | * Support for the sh-symbianelf target added. |
1fe1f39c | 136 | |
0503b355 BF |
137 | * Added a pseudo-op (.secrel32) to generate 32 bit section relative relocations |
138 | on pe[i]-i386; required for this target's DWARF 2 support. | |
139 | ||
6b6e92f4 NC |
140 | * Support for Motorola MCF521x/5249/547x/548x added. |
141 | ||
fd99574b NC |
142 | * Support for ColdFire EMAC instructions added and Motorola syntax for MAC/EMAC |
143 | instrucitons. | |
144 | ||
aa6975fb ILT |
145 | * New command line option -mno-shared for MIPS ELF targets. |
146 | ||
caa32fe5 NC |
147 | * New command line option --alternate and pseudo-ops .altmacro and .noaltmacro |
148 | added to enter (and leave) alternate macro syntax mode. | |
149 | ||
0477af35 NC |
150 | Changes in 2.15: |
151 | ||
7a7f4e42 CD |
152 | * The MIPS -membedded-pic option (Embedded-PIC code generation) is |
153 | deprecated and will be removed in a future release. | |
154 | ||
6edf0760 NC |
155 | * Added PIC m32r Linux (ELF) and support to M32R assembler. |
156 | ||
09d92015 MM |
157 | * Added support for ARM V6. |
158 | ||
88da98f3 MS |
159 | * Added support for sh4a and variants. |
160 | ||
eb764db8 NC |
161 | * Support for Renesas M32R2 added. |
162 | ||
88da98f3 MS |
163 | * Limited support for Mapping Symbols as specified in the ARM ELF |
164 | specification has been added to the arm assembler. | |
ed769ec1 | 165 | |
0bbf2aa4 NC |
166 | * On ARM architectures, added a new gas directive ".unreq" that undoes |
167 | definitions created by ".req". | |
168 | ||
3e602632 NC |
169 | * Support for Motorola ColdFire MCF528x added. |
170 | ||
05da4302 NC |
171 | * Added --gstabs+ switch to enable the generation of STABS debug format |
172 | information with GNU extensions. | |
173 | ||
6a265366 CD |
174 | * Added support for MIPS64 Release 2. |
175 | ||
8ad30312 NC |
176 | * Added support for v850e1. |
177 | ||
12b55ccc L |
178 | * Added -n switch for x86 assembler. By default, x86 GAS replaces |
179 | multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code sections | |
180 | with multi-byte nop instructions such as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi. This | |
181 | switch disables the optimization. | |
182 | ||
78849248 ILT |
183 | * Removed -n option from MIPS assembler. It was not useful, and confused the |
184 | existing -non_shared option. | |
185 | ||
43c58ae6 CD |
186 | Changes in 2.14: |
187 | ||
69be0a2b CD |
188 | * Added support for MIPS32 Release 2. |
189 | ||
e8fd7476 NC |
190 | * Added support for Xtensa architecture. |
191 | ||
e16bb312 NC |
192 | * Support for Intel's iWMMXt processor (an ARM variant) added. |
193 | ||
cce4814f NC |
194 | * An assembler test generator has been contributed and an example file that |
195 | uses it (gas/testsuite/gas/all/test-gen.c and test-exmaple.c). | |
196 | ||
5177500f NC |
197 | * Support for SH2E added. |
198 | ||
fea17916 NC |
199 | * GASP has now been removed. |
200 | ||
004d9caf NC |
201 | * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of |
202 | DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal. | |
026df7c5 | 203 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
204 | * Support for the Ubicom IP2xxx microcontroller added. |
205 | ||
2cbb2eef NC |
206 | Changes in 2.13: |
207 | ||
a40cbfa3 NC |
208 | * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400 |
209 | and FR500 included. | |
0ebb9a87 | 210 | |
a40cbfa3 | 211 | * Support for DLX processor added. |
52216602 | 212 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
213 | * GASP has now been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use |
214 | the macro facilities in GAS instead. | |
3f965e60 | 215 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
216 | * GASP now correctly parses floating point numbers. Unless the base is |
217 | explicitly specified, they are interpreted as decimal numbers regardless of | |
218 | the currently specified base. | |
1ac57253 | 219 | |
9a66911f NC |
220 | Changes in 2.12: |
221 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 222 | * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson. |
49fda6c8 | 223 | |
a40cbfa3 | 224 | * Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores. |
3b16e843 | 225 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
226 | * The ARM assembler now accepts -march=..., -mcpu=... and -mfpu=... for |
227 | specifying the target instruction set. The old method of specifying the | |
228 | target processor has been deprecated, but is still accepted for | |
229 | compatibility. | |
03b1477f | 230 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
231 | * Support for the VFP floating-point instruction set has been added to |
232 | the ARM assembler. | |
252b5132 | 233 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
234 | * New psuedo op: .incbin to include a set of binary data at a given point |
235 | in the assembly. Contributed by Anders Norlander. | |
7e005732 | 236 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
237 | * The MIPS assembler now accepts -march/-mtune. -mcpu has been deprecated |
238 | but still works for compatability. | |
ec68c924 | 239 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
240 | * The MIPS assembler no longer issues a warning by default when it |
241 | generates a nop instruction from a macro. The new command line option | |
242 | -n will turn on the warning. | |
63486801 | 243 | |
2dac7317 JW |
244 | Changes in 2.11: |
245 | ||
500800ca NC |
246 | * Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff. |
247 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 248 | * x86 gas now supports the full Pentium4 instruction set. |
a167610d | 249 | |
a40cbfa3 | 250 | * Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs. |
c0d8940f | 251 | |
a40cbfa3 | 252 | * Support for Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12. |
df86943d | 253 | |
a40cbfa3 | 254 | * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C54x (tic54x). |
39bec121 | 255 | |
a40cbfa3 | 256 | * Support for IA-64. |
2dac7317 | 257 | |
a40cbfa3 | 258 | * Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt. |
22b36938 | 259 | |
a40cbfa3 | 260 | * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). |
5bcac8a4 | 261 | |
a40cbfa3 | 262 | * x86 gas has a new .arch pseudo op to specify the target CPU architecture. |
a38cf1db | 263 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
264 | * x86 gas -q command line option quietens warnings about register size changes |
265 | due to suffix, indirect jmp/call without `*', stand-alone prefixes, and | |
266 | translating various deprecated floating point instructions. | |
a38cf1db | 267 | |
252b5132 RH |
268 | Changes in 2.10: |
269 | ||
a40cbfa3 NC |
270 | * Support for the ARM msr instruction was changed to only allow an immediate |
271 | operand when altering the flags field. | |
d14442f4 | 272 | |
a40cbfa3 | 273 | * Support for ATMEL AVR. |
adde6300 | 274 | |
a40cbfa3 | 275 | * Support for IBM 370 ELF. Somewhat experimental. |
b5ebe70e | 276 | |
a40cbfa3 | 277 | * Support for numbers with suffixes. |
3fd9f047 | 278 | |
a40cbfa3 | 279 | * Added support for breaking to the end of repeat loops. |
6a6987a9 | 280 | |
a40cbfa3 | 281 | * Added support for parallel instruction syntax (DOUBLEBAR_PARALLEL). |
6a6987a9 | 282 | |
a40cbfa3 | 283 | * New .elseif pseudo-op added. |
3fd9f047 | 284 | |
a40cbfa3 | 285 | * New --fatal-warnings option. |
1f776aa5 | 286 | |
a40cbfa3 | 287 | * picoJava architecture support added. |
252b5132 | 288 | |
a40cbfa3 | 289 | * Motorola MCore 210 processor support added. |
041dd5a9 | 290 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
291 | * A new pseudo-op .intel_syntax has been implemented to allow gas to parse i386 |
292 | assembly programs with intel syntax. | |
252b5132 | 293 | |
a40cbfa3 | 294 | * New pseudo-ops .func,.endfunc to aid in debugging user-written assembler code. |
252b5132 | 295 | |
a40cbfa3 | 296 | * Added -gdwarf2 option to generate DWARF 2 debugging information. |
041dd5a9 | 297 | |
a40cbfa3 | 298 | * Full 16-bit mode support for i386. |
252b5132 | 299 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
300 | * Greatly improved instruction operand checking for i386. This change will |
301 | produce errors or warnings on incorrect assembly code that previous versions | |
302 | of gas accepted. If you get unexpected messages from code that worked with | |
303 | older versions of gas, please double check the code before reporting a bug. | |
252b5132 | 304 | |
a40cbfa3 | 305 | * Weak symbol support added for COFF targets. |
252b5132 | 306 | |
a40cbfa3 | 307 | * Mitsubishi D30V support added. |
252b5132 | 308 | |
a40cbfa3 | 309 | * Texas Instruments c80 (tms320c80) support added. |
252b5132 | 310 | |
a40cbfa3 | 311 | * i960 ELF support added. |
bedf545c | 312 | |
a40cbfa3 | 313 | * ARM ELF support added. |
a057431b | 314 | |
252b5132 RH |
315 | Changes in 2.9: |
316 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 317 | * Texas Instruments c30 (tms320c30) support added. |
252b5132 | 318 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
319 | * The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs |
320 | and gcc 2.8. The new --traditional-format option disables this optimization. | |
252b5132 | 321 | |
a40cbfa3 | 322 | * Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information. |
252b5132 | 323 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
324 | * The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a |
325 | listing. | |
252b5132 | 326 | |
a40cbfa3 | 327 | * Added -MD option to print dependencies. |
252b5132 RH |
328 | |
329 | Changes in 2.8: | |
330 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 331 | * BeOS support added. |
252b5132 | 332 | |
a40cbfa3 | 333 | * MIPS16 support added. |
252b5132 | 334 | |
a40cbfa3 | 335 | * Motorola ColdFire 5200 support added (configure for m68k and use -m5200). |
252b5132 | 336 | |
a40cbfa3 | 337 | * Alpha/VMS support added. |
252b5132 | 338 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
339 | * m68k options --base-size-default-16, --base-size-default-32, |
340 | --disp-size-default-16, and --disp-size-default-32 added. | |
252b5132 | 341 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
342 | * The alignment directives now take an optional third argument, which is the |
343 | maximum number of bytes to skip. If doing the alignment would require | |
344 | skipping more than the given number of bytes, the alignment is not done at | |
345 | all. | |
252b5132 | 346 | |
a40cbfa3 | 347 | * The ELF assembler has a new pseudo-op, .symver, used for symbol versioning. |
252b5132 | 348 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
349 | * The -a option takes a new suboption, c (e.g., -alc), to skip false |
350 | conditionals in listings. | |
252b5132 | 351 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
352 | * Added new pseudo-op, .equiv; it's like .equ, except that it is an error if |
353 | the symbol is already defined. | |
252b5132 RH |
354 | |
355 | Changes in 2.7: | |
356 | ||
a40cbfa3 NC |
357 | * The PowerPC assembler now allows the use of symbolic register names (r0, |
358 | etc.) if -mregnames is used. Symbolic names preceded by a '%' (%r0, etc.) | |
359 | can be used any time. PowerPC 860 move to/from SPR instructions have been | |
360 | added. | |
252b5132 | 361 | |
a40cbfa3 | 362 | * Alpha Linux (ELF) support added. |
252b5132 | 363 | |
a40cbfa3 | 364 | * PowerPC ELF support added. |
252b5132 | 365 | |
a40cbfa3 | 366 | * m68k Linux (ELF) support added. |
252b5132 | 367 | |
a40cbfa3 | 368 | * i960 Hx/Jx support added. |
252b5132 | 369 | |
a40cbfa3 | 370 | * i386/PowerPC gnu-win32 support added. |
252b5132 | 371 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
372 | * SCO ELF support added. For OpenServer 5 targets (i386-unknown-sco3.2v5) the |
373 | default is to build COFF-only support. To get a set of tools that generate | |
374 | ELF (they'll understand both COFF and ELF), you must configure with | |
375 | target=i386-unknown-sco3.2v5elf. | |
252b5132 | 376 | |
a40cbfa3 | 377 | * m88k-motorola-sysv3* support added. |
252b5132 RH |
378 | |
379 | Changes in 2.6: | |
380 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 381 | * Gas now directly supports macros, without requiring GASP. |
252b5132 | 382 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
383 | * Gas now has an MRI assembler compatibility mode. Use -M or --mri to select |
384 | MRI mode. The pseudo-op ``.mri 1'' will switch into the MRI mode until the | |
385 | ``.mri 0'' is seen; this can be convenient for inline assembler code. | |
252b5132 | 386 | |
a40cbfa3 | 387 | * Added --defsym SYM=VALUE option. |
252b5132 | 388 | |
a40cbfa3 | 389 | * Added -mips4 support to MIPS assembler. |
252b5132 | 390 | |
a40cbfa3 | 391 | * Added PIC support to Solaris and SPARC SunOS 4 assembler. |
252b5132 RH |
392 | |
393 | Changes in 2.4: | |
394 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 395 | * Converted this directory to use an autoconf-generated configure script. |
252b5132 | 396 | |
a40cbfa3 | 397 | * ARM support, from Richard Earnshaw. |
252b5132 | 398 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
399 | * Updated VMS support, from Pat Rankin, including considerably improved |
400 | debugging support. | |
252b5132 | 401 | |
a40cbfa3 | 402 | * Support for the control registers in the 68060. |
252b5132 | 403 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
404 | * Handles (ignores) a new directive ".this_GCC_requires_the_GNU_assembler", to |
405 | provide for possible future gcc changes, for targets where gas provides some | |
406 | features not available in the native assembler. If the native assembler is | |
407 | used, it should become obvious pretty quickly what the problem is. | |
252b5132 | 408 | |
a40cbfa3 | 409 | * Usage message is available with "--help". |
252b5132 | 410 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
411 | * The GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp) is included. (Actually, it was in 2.3 |
412 | also, but didn't get into the NEWS file.) | |
252b5132 | 413 | |
a40cbfa3 | 414 | * Weak symbol support for a.out. |
252b5132 | 415 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
416 | * A bug in the listing code which could cause an infinite loop has been fixed. |
417 | Bugs in listings when generating a COFF object file have also been fixed. | |
252b5132 | 418 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
419 | * Initial i386-svr4 PIC implementation from Eric Youngdale, based on code by |
420 | Paul Kranenburg. | |
252b5132 | 421 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
422 | * Improved Alpha support. Immediate constants can have a much larger range |
423 | now. Support for the 21164 has been contributed by Digital. | |
252b5132 | 424 | |
a40cbfa3 | 425 | * Updated ns32k (pc532-mach, netbsd532) support from Ian Dall. |
252b5132 RH |
426 | |
427 | Changes in 2.3: | |
428 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 429 | * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie and Ken Raeburn. |
252b5132 | 430 | |
a40cbfa3 | 431 | * RS/6000 and PowerPC support by Ian Taylor. |
252b5132 | 432 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
433 | * VMS command scripts (make-gas.com, config-gas.com) have been worked on a bit, |
434 | based on mail received from various people. The `-h#' option should work | |
435 | again too. | |
252b5132 | 436 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
437 | * HP-PA work, by Jeff Law. Note, for the PA, gas-2.3 has been designed to work |
438 | with gdb-4.12 and gcc-2.6. As gcc-2.6 has not been released yet, a special | |
439 | version of gcc-2.5.8 has been patched to work with gas-2.3. You can retrieve | |
440 | this special version of gcc-2.5.8 via anonymous ftp from jaguar.cs.utah.edu | |
441 | in the "dist" directory. | |
252b5132 | 442 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
443 | * Vax support in gas fixed for BSD, so it builds and seems to run a couple |
444 | simple tests okay. I haven't put it through extensive testing. (GNU make is | |
445 | currently required for BSD 4.3 builds.) | |
252b5132 | 446 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
447 | * Support for the DEC Alpha, running OSF/1 (ECOFF format). The gas support is |
448 | based on code donated by CMU, which used an a.out-based format. I'm afraid | |
449 | the alpha-a.out support is pretty badly mangled, and much of it removed; | |
450 | making it work will require rewriting it as BFD support for the format anyways. | |
252b5132 | 451 | |
a40cbfa3 | 452 | * Irix 5 support. |
252b5132 | 453 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
454 | * The test suites have been fixed up a bit, so that they should work with a |
455 | couple different versions of expect and dejagnu. | |
252b5132 | 456 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
457 | * Symbols' values are now handled internally as expressions, permitting more |
458 | flexibility in evaluating them in some cases. Some details of relocation | |
459 | handling have also changed, and simple constant pool management has been | |
460 | added, to make the Alpha port easier. | |
252b5132 | 461 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
462 | * New option "--statistics" for printing out program run times. This is |
463 | intended to be used with the gcc "-Q" option, which prints out times spent in | |
464 | various phases of compilation. (You should be able to get all of them | |
465 | printed out with "gcc -Q -Wa,--statistics", I think.) | |
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466 | |
467 | Changes in 2.2: | |
468 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 469 | * RS/6000 AIX and MIPS SGI Irix 5 support has been added. |
252b5132 | 470 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
471 | * Configurations that are still in development (and therefore are convenient to |
472 | have listed in configure.in) still get rejected without a minor change to | |
473 | gas/Makefile.in, so people not doing development work shouldn't get the | |
474 | impression that support for such configurations is actually believed to be | |
475 | reliable. | |
252b5132 | 476 | |
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477 | * The program name (usually "as") is printed when a fatal error message is |
478 | displayed. This should prevent some confusion about the source of occasional | |
479 | messages about "internal errors". | |
252b5132 | 480 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
481 | * ELF support is falling into place. Support for the 386 should be working. |
482 | Support for SPARC Solaris is in. HPPA support from Utah is being integrated. | |
252b5132 | 483 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
484 | * Symbol values are maintained as expressions instead of being immediately |
485 | boiled down to add-symbol, sub-symbol, and constant. This permits slightly | |
486 | more complex calculations involving symbols whose values are not alreadey | |
487 | known. | |
252b5132 | 488 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
489 | * DBX-style debugging info ("stabs") is now supported for COFF formats. |
490 | If any stabs directives are seen in the source, GAS will create two new | |
491 | sections: a ".stab" and a ".stabstr" section. The format of the .stab | |
492 | section is nearly identical to the a.out symbol format, and .stabstr is | |
493 | its string table. For this to be useful, you must have configured GCC | |
494 | to generate stabs (by defining DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO), and must have a GDB | |
495 | that can use the stab sections (4.11 or later). | |
252b5132 | 496 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
497 | * LynxOS, on i386 and m68k platforms, is now supported. SPARC LynxOS |
498 | support is in progress. | |
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499 | |
500 | Changes in 2.1: | |
501 | ||
a40cbfa3 NC |
502 | * Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have been |
503 | incorporated, but not well tested yet. | |
252b5132 | 504 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
505 | * Altered the opcode table split for m68k; it should require less VM to compile |
506 | with gcc now. | |
252b5132 | 507 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
508 | * Some minor adjustments to add (Convergent Technologies') Miniframe support, |
509 | suggested by Ronald Cole. | |
252b5132 | 510 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
511 | * HPPA support (running OSF only, not HPUX) has been contributed by Utah. This |
512 | includes improved ELF support, which I've started adapting for SPARC Solaris | |
513 | 2.x. Integration isn't completely, so it probably won't work. | |
252b5132 | 514 | |
a40cbfa3 | 515 | * HP9000/300 support, donated by HP, has been merged in. |
252b5132 | 516 | |
a40cbfa3 | 517 | * Ian Taylor has finished the MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Irix) support. |
252b5132 | 518 | |
a40cbfa3 | 519 | * Better error messages for unsupported configurations (e.g., hppa-hpux). |
252b5132 | 520 | |
a40cbfa3 | 521 | * Test suite framework is starting to become reasonable. |
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522 | |
523 | Changes in 2.0: | |
524 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 525 | * Mostly bug fixes. |
252b5132 | 526 | |
a40cbfa3 | 527 | * Some more merging of BFD and ELF code, but ELF still doesn't work. |
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528 | |
529 | Changes in 1.94: | |
530 | ||
a40cbfa3 NC |
531 | * BFD merge is partly done. Adventurous souls may try giving configure the |
532 | "--with-bfd-assembler" option. Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out | |
533 | format accepts it; SPARC CPU accepts it. It's the default only for OS "elf" | |
534 | or "solaris". (ELF isn't really supported yet. It needs work. I've got | |
535 | some code from Utah for HP-PA ELF, and from DG for m88k ELF, but they're not | |
536 | fully merged yet.) | |
252b5132 | 537 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
538 | * The 68K opcode table has been split in half. It should now compile under gcc |
539 | without consuming ridiculous amounts of memory. | |
252b5132 | 540 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
541 | * A couple data structures have been reduced in size. This should result in |
542 | saving a little bit of space at runtime. | |
252b5132 | 543 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
544 | * Support for MIPS, from OSF and Ralph Campbell, has been merged in. The OSF |
545 | code provided ROSE format support, which I haven't merged in yet. (I can | |
546 | make it available, if anyone wants to try it out.) Ralph's code, for BSD | |
547 | 4.4, supports a.out format. We don't have ECOFF support in just yet; it's | |
548 | coming. | |
252b5132 | 549 | |
a40cbfa3 | 550 | * Support for the Hitachi H8/500 has been added. |
252b5132 | 551 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
552 | * VMS host and target support should be working now, thanks chiefly to Eric |
553 | Youngdale. | |
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554 | |
555 | Changes in 1.93.01: | |
556 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 557 | * For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851. |
252b5132 | 558 | |
a40cbfa3 | 559 | * For i386, .align is now power-of-two; was number-of-bytes. |
252b5132 | 560 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
561 | * For m68k, "%" is now accepted before register names. For COFF format, which |
562 | doesn't use underscore prefixes for C labels, it is required, so variable "a0" | |
563 | can be distinguished from the register. | |
252b5132 | 564 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
565 | * Last public release was 1.38. Lots of configuration changes since then, lots |
566 | of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed. | |
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567 | |
568 | \f | |
569 | Local variables: | |
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571 | End: |