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+* Support for -z nocopyreloc in the x86 ELF linker, which disables
+ production of copy relocs. Warning: using this option may result in
+ non-sharable applications.
+
+* Support for -z combreloc in the ELF linker, which puts dynamic
+ relocations against the same symbol together, so that dynamic linker
+ can use an one-entry symbol lookup cache.
+
+* Support for ELF SHF_MERGE section merging, by Jakub Jelinek.
+
+* Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs.
+
+* Support added for eliminating duplicate DWARF2 debug information by
+ having the compiler generate the information in sections called
+ .gnu.linkonce.wi.XXXX where XXXX is a checksum for the contents. The
+ linker then merges these sections together into the normal .debug_info
+ section.
+
+* The native ELF linker now searches the directories in DT_RUNPATH or
+ DT_RPATH of a shared library for shared libraries needed by it.
+
+* TI C54x support, by Timothy Wall.
* Added command line switch --section-start to set the start address of any
specified section.
symbol relative addressing in the event of changes in section contents
(instructions being added or deleted, extending data sections, etc.)
+* Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt (preliminary, alpha quality).
+
+* Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
+
Changes in version 2.10:
* Added AT> to the linker script language to allow load-time allocation of
* Added garbage collection of unused sections, enabled by --gc-sections.
It does require a bit of backend support; currently implemented are
- avr-elf, d10v-elf, fr30-elf, i386-elf, m32r-elf, m68k-elf, mcore-elf,
- mips-elf, mn10300-elf, ppc-elf, sh-elf, sparc-elf, and v850-elf.
+ arm-elf, avr-elf, d10v-elf, fr30-elf, i386-elf, m32r-elf, m68k-elf,
+ mcore-elf, mips-elf, mn10300-elf, ppc-elf, sh-elf, sparc-elf, and v850-elf.
Others will ignore the option.
* Added SORT to the linker script language to permit sorting sections by file