2002-06-08 Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / NEWS

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@@ -1,5 +1,18 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+Changes in version 2.12:
+
+* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
+
+* size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only).
+
+* readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing
+  lines to fit into 80 columns.
+
+* strings: Add --encoding to display wide character strings.  By Markus Kuhn.
+
+* objcopy: Add --rename-section to change section names.
+
 * readelf: Support added for DWARF 2.1 extensions.  Support added for
   displaying the contents of .debug.macinfo sections.
 
@@ -9,6 +22,10 @@
 
 * Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg.
 
+* New command line switch to objcopy --alt-machine-code which creates a binary
+  with an alternate machine code if one is defined in the architecture
+  description.  Only supported for ELF targets.  By Alexandre Oliva.
+
 * New command line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets
   the architecture of the output file to the given argument.  This option only
   makes sense, if the input target is binary.  Otherwise it is ignored.