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+* objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
+ --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
+ matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but
+ retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations.
+
+* readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections. This
+ happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered. The
+ command line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display
+ the contents of the .debug_range section.
+
+* nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of
+ symbols which the target considers to be special. By default these symbols
+ are no longer displayed. Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping
+ symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and
+ between ARM and THUMB code.
+
+* dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional
+ import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them.
+
+Changes in 2.15:
+
+* objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on
+ the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them.
+
+* readelf can now parse archives.
+
+* objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a
+ format compatible with ctags tool.
+
+* objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing
+ those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug. The idea is that
+ this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create
+ a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the
+ debugging info.
+
* objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink
section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug
- information for the file to be held in a seperate file.
+ information for the file to be held in a separate file.
* BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX
single-character representation. This can be checked by running nm
with the -a switch.
+Changes in 2.14:
+
* Added --info switch to objcopy and strip.
* Support for Vitesse IQ2000 added by Red Hat.
Changes in binutils 2.5:
* Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly
- listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files.
+ listing, for a more useful listing of relocatable files.
* Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections.
Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections.