X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=binutils%2FNEWS;h=56adfa2d9edbbd5e455c6697d0f3d55af7abd9bf;hb=59f48f5a45d2300da401f1fccab31ba436217469;hp=2edef3c25c51f7aa6cfb9f7380002f53a0eacea0;hpb=cf13d6995d27492605b42fb8d6bb22659cb35a0b;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index 2edef3c25c..56adfa2d9e 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,121 @@ -*- text -*- + +* The --remove-section option for objcopy and strip now accepts section + patterns starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching + section. A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections + matched by an earlier --remove-section pattern. + +* The --only-section option for objcopy now accepts section patterns + starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching section. + A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections matched by + an earlier --only-section pattern. + +* New --remove-relocations=SECTIONPATTERN option for objcopy and strip. + This option can be used to remove sections containing relocations. + The SECTIONPATTERN is the section to which the relocations apply, not + the relocation section itself. + +Changes in 2.27: + +* Add a configure option, --enable-64-bit-archive, to force use of a + 64-bit format when creating an archive symbol index. + +* Add --elf-stt-common= option to objcopy for ELF targets to control + whether to convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type. + +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: + +* Objcopy now supports wildcard characters in command line options that take + section names. + +* Add support for Altera Nios II. + +Changes in 2.23: + +* Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture. + +* Add support for x64 Windows target of the delayed-load-library. + +* Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture. + +Changes in 2.22: + +* Add support for displaying the contents of .debug.macro sections. + +* Add --preprocessor-arg option to windres to specify additional options + passed to preprocessor. + +* Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump. These are used by + the new Emacs mode, see dwarf-mode.el. + +* Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures. + +changes in 2.21: + +* Add --interleave-width option to objcopy to allowing copying a range of + bytes from the input to the output with the --interleave option. + +* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family. + +* Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using + the -u / --unwind option. + +* Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table. + +* A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format + binaries. + +* Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by + '== ' option. + +* Add a new command line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the + address before function name or source filename. + +* Add a new command line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have + a more human readable output. + +* The hppa/som targets can now be compiled on any host. + +Changes in 2.20: + +* Add support for delay importing to dlltool. Use the --output-delaylib + switch to create a delay-import library. The resulting app will load the dll + as soon as the first function is called. It will link to __delayLoadHelper2() + from the static delayimp library, which will import LoadLibraryA and + GetProcAddress from kernel32. + +* Add a new command line option, --insn-width=WIDTH, to objdump to specify + number of bytes to be displayed on a single line when disassembling + instructions. + * Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence of bytes via the --relocated-dump= command line option. @@ -29,7 +146,7 @@ * 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. @@ -48,7 +165,7 @@ 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. @@ -113,9 +230,9 @@ 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: @@ -164,7 +281,7 @@ 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. @@ -415,6 +532,12 @@ Changes in binutils 2.1: and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options. +Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + +Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, +are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright +notice and this notice are preserved. + Local variables: fill-column: 79 End: