2006-02-19 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>

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

diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 0c52b4bb562521b47bdd5cfe8b01e6e813c5e9cf..d12450e38925856424607448d459262854680b8c 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,40 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+* Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER".
+
+* Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt.  -i disables the display of implementation
+  specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling
+  of types.
+
+* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so
+  that extra switches can be read from <file>.
+
+* Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF
+  debug sections.
+
+* Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details.
+  "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated.
+
+* powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security
+  conscious.  This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all
+  code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt.  The old PLT
+  and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt.
+
+* Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information
+  for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function.
+
+* 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 groups.
+
 * 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
@@ -21,6 +56,11 @@
 
 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.