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+* New command line option -msse2avx for x86 target to encode SSE
+ instructions with VEX prefix.
+
+* Add Intel XSAVE, AES, PCLMUL, AVX/FMA support for x86 target.
+
+* New command line options, -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mtune=CPU,
+ -mmnemonic=[att|intel], -msyntax=[att|intel], -mindex-reg,
+ -mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc, for x86 targets.
+
+* Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new
+ pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64.
+
* Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
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