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+* ELF: --warn-alternate-em option to warn if an object has alternate
+  ELF machine code.
+
+* New script function REGION_ALIAS to add alias names to memory regions.
+
 * PE targets no longer make use of the long section names PE extension to
   the COFF format when generating executable images, by default.  The old
   (slightly non-conformant) behaviour can still be invoked by using the
-  new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option.
+  new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option.  It is also enabled
+  automatically in the presence of un-stripped debug information, as GDB
+  needs to be able to find the debug info sections by their full names.
 
 * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
   symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries.  In the