-*- text -*-
+* 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 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.
+
+* Added 'S' encoding to strings to allow the display of 8-bit characters.
+
+* Added --prefix-symbols=<text>, --prefix-sections=<text> and
+ --prefix-alloc-sections=<text> to objcopy.
+
+* readelf can handle the extensions to the DWARF2 spec used by the Unified
+ Parallel C compiler.
+
+* BFD no longer declares a "boolean" type, to avoid clashes with other
+ headers that declare the same. Users of BFD should replace boolean,
+ false and true, with int, 0 and 1, or define their own boolean type.
+
+* Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov.
+
+Changes in 2.13:
+
+* Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
+ and FR500 included.
+
Changes in version 2.12:
* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
* Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy.
By Luciano Gemme.
-
+
* Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander.
* Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt.
* New command line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the
entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given
- file.
+ file.
* New command line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes
a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the
disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or
raw verions.
-
+
* objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed
with intel syntax.
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.