-*- text -*-
+Changes since version 2.7:
+
+* Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section
+ names.
+
+* The NOCROSSREFS command was added to the linker script language.
+
+* The LOADADDR expression was added to the linker script language.
+
+Changes since version 2.6:
+
+* New option --cref to print out a cross reference table.
+
+* New option --wrap SYMBOL.
+
+* New option --no-whole-archive, to turn off the effect of --whole-archive.
+
+* Input sections assigned to the output section /DISCARD/ in the linker script
+ are not included in the output file.
+
+* The SunOS and ELF linkers now merge stabs debugging information which uses
+ the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types. This reduces the amount of debugging
+ information generated.
+
Changes since version 2.5:
* When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true
* New options -split-by-reloc and -split-by-file.
* The linker now supports linking PIC compiled code on SPARC SunOS. It can
-also create SPARC SunOS shared libraries. The native SunOS linker will do this
-when linking code which has an undefined symbol, but the GNU linker requires
-the -shared option. For convenience when used with gcc -shared, the GNU linker
-will also create a shared library when given the -assert pure-text option,
-although this is not really what -assert pure-text should mean.
+also create SPARC SunOS shared libraries, and, like the native SunOS linker,
+will do so whenever there is an undefined symbol in the link and neither the -e
+nor the -r option was used.
+
+* The -rpath option may be used on SunOS to set the list of directories to be
+searched at run time. This overrides the default of building the list from the
+-L options.
* The COFF linker now combines debugging information for structs, unions, and
enums, so that even if the same type is defined in multiple input files it will
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