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+* Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name.
+
+* Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address
+ when disassembling VAX binaries.
+
+* Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches
+ to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols.
+
+Changes in 2.16:
+
+* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section group.
+
+* 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.
+
+* 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.