* config/default.exp: Remove send_user call for stray output.

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

diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 0a8c0cfa0fcbdb587776514c243636c8bb92a1b2..8677cb7ceecab44459f01251641c479c0938ab26 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,36 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+* 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 for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the
+  disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some
+  pseudo instruction name.  I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move",
+  "sll" instead of "nop", etc.
+
+* 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.
 
@@ -11,12 +42,14 @@
 
 * 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.