X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=binutils%2FNEWS;h=3146bd6043ffb1114a86b89c50066c0f23fef452;hb=f8c2a96547f690bb6308f1dbdf174679afd01b2b;hp=f1f00613a0c5e6d4b042bf787d6f273ed98d6086;hpb=35c081572f32263b24554ae40502fb5b51ece8c6;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index f1f00613a0..3146bd6043 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,31 @@ -*- text -*- +Changes in 2.26: + +* Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file: + --add-symbol =[
:][,] + +* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. + +* Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support + --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF + targets. + +* Add --update-section option to objcopy. + +* Add --output-separator option to strings. + +Changes in 2.25: + +* Add --data option to strings to only print strings in loadable, initialized + data sections. Change the default behaviour to be --all, but add a new + configure time option of --disable-default-strings-all to restore the old + default behaviour. + +* Add --include-all-whitespace to strings. + +* Add --dump-section option to objcopy. + * Add support for the Andes NDS32. Changes in 2.24: @@ -97,7 +123,7 @@ Changes in 2.20: * Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall- back to old import table generation with null element prefix. -* Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify to +* Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify to report an error when the import library is associated with multiple DLLs. @@ -116,7 +142,7 @@ Changes in 2.19: object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been added to the archive. - + * Added -F switch to objdump to include file offsets in the disassembly. * Added -c switch to readelf to allow string dumps of archive symbol index. @@ -181,9 +207,9 @@ Changes in 2.17: * Add "--globalize-symbol " and "--globalize-symbols " switches to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols. - + * gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for - several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint. + several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint. Changes in 2.16: @@ -232,7 +258,7 @@ Changes in 2.15: * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink= to insert a .gnu_debuglink section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug information for the file to be held in a separate file. - + * BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX single-character representation. This can be checked by running nm with the -a switch. @@ -483,7 +509,7 @@ Changes in binutils 2.1: and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options. -Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright