Minor O_CLOEXEC optimization, "regression" fix

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / ld / ld.texinfo

diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index d783ca995924eebfe1b57ad05d2a98722d4ac223..e4788f67b57fd9866148dcb37969a2d6fd7e9c75 100644 (file)
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -2318,7 +2318,7 @@ file offsets which are multiples of this number.  This defaults to
 @item --heap @var{reserve}
 @itemx --heap @var{reserve},@var{commit}
 Specify the number of bytes of memory to reserve (and optionally commit)
-to be used as heap for this program.  The default is 1Mb reserved, 4K
+to be used as heap for this program.  The default is 1MB reserved, 4K
 committed.
 [This option is specific to the i386 PE targeted port of the linker]
 
@@ -2348,6 +2348,14 @@ or /USERVA=@var{value} megabytes switch in the ``[operating systems]''
 section of the BOOT.INI.  Otherwise, this bit has no effect.
 [This option is specific to PE targeted ports of the linker]
 
+@kindex --disable-large-address-aware
+@item --disable-large-address-aware
+Reverts the effect of a previous @samp{--large-address-aware} option.
+This is useful if @samp{--large-address-aware} is always set by the compiler
+driver (e.g. Cygwin gcc) and the executable does not support virtual
+addresses greater than 2 gigabytes.
+[This option is specific to PE targeted ports of the linker]
+
 @kindex --major-image-version
 @item --major-image-version @var{value}
 Sets the major number of the ``image version''.  Defaults to 1.
@@ -2594,7 +2602,7 @@ addresses which are a multiple of this number.  Defaults to 0x1000.
 @item --stack @var{reserve}
 @itemx --stack @var{reserve},@var{commit}
 Specify the number of bytes of memory to reserve (and optionally commit)
-to be used as stack for this program.  The default is 2Mb reserved, 4K
+to be used as stack for this program.  The default is 2MB reserved, 4K
 committed.
 [This option is specific to the i386 PE targeted port of the linker]
 
@@ -3762,7 +3770,7 @@ The full description of an output section looks like this:
 @group
 @var{section} [@var{address}] [(@var{type})] :
   [AT(@var{lma})]
-  [ALIGN(@var{section_align})]
+  [ALIGN(@var{section_align}) | ALIGN_WITH_INPUT]
   [SUBALIGN(@var{subsection_align})]
   [@var{constraint}]
   @{
@@ -4585,7 +4593,11 @@ for (dst = &_bstart; dst< &_bend; dst++)
 @kindex ALIGN(@var{section_align})
 @cindex forcing output section alignment
 @cindex output section alignment
-You can increase an output section's alignment by using ALIGN.
+You can increase an output section's alignment by using ALIGN.  As an
+alternative you can force the output section alignment to the maximum alignment
+of all its input sections with ALIGN_WITH_INPUT.  The alignment forced by
+ALIGN_WITH_INPUT is used even in case the load and virtual memory regions are
+different.
 
 @node Forced Input Alignment
 @subsubsection Forced Input Alignment
@@ -5943,6 +5955,11 @@ Return the length of the memory region named @var{memory}.
 Return the absolute LMA of the named @var{section}.  (@pxref{Output
 Section LMA}).
 
+@item LOG2CEIL(@var{exp})
+@kindex LOG2CEIL(@var{exp})
+Return the binary logarithm of @var{exp} rounded towards infinity.
+@code{LOG2CEIL(0)} returns 0.
+
 @kindex MAX
 @item MAX(@var{exp1}, @var{exp2})
 Returns the maximum of @var{exp1} and @var{exp2}.