X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=binutils%2FNEWS;h=d12450e38925856424607448d459262854680b8c;hb=b2e818b70d26c7336ef4798b7beb97916ef044ac;hp=8677cb7ceecab44459f01251641c479c0938ab26;hpb=9d317d3425a06f0e2ae3ded4f6c1e157f1a7dadd;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index 8677cb7cee..d12450e389 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,40 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER". + +* Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation + specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling + of types. + +* Add support for the "@" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so + that extra switches can be read from . + +* Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF + debug sections. + +* Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details. + "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated. + +* powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security + conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all + code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT + and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt. + +* Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information + for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function. + +* Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name. + +* Add "-M entry:" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address + when disassembling VAX binaries. + +* Add "--globalize-symbol " and "--globalize-symbols " switches + to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols. + +Changes in 2.16: + +* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups. + * objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but