X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gas%2FNEWS;h=a627028de15653c9b8a5c0690eff41f4909258d0;hb=e046cf801d513ceafc38216ec4e2a907b52a3f91;hp=2e6245052c1fcec8a3e7f32ba691a9c87c2f362e;hpb=35c081572f32263b24554ae40502fb5b51ece8c6;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS index 2e6245052c..a627028de1 100644 --- a/gas/NEWS +++ b/gas/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,63 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add a configure option --enable-elf-stt-common to decide whether ELF + assembler should generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type by + default. Default to no. + +* New command line option --elf-stt-common= for ELF targets to control + whether to generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type. + +* Add ability to set section flags and types via numeric values for ELF + based targets. + +* Add a configure option --enable-x86-relax-relocations to decide whether + x86 assembler should generate relax relocations by default. Default to + yes, except for x86 Solaris targets older than Solaris 12. + +* New command line option -mrelax-relocations= for x86 target to control + whether to generate relax relocations. + +* New command line option -mfence-as-lock-add=yes for x86 target to encode + lfence, mfence and sfence as "lock addl $0x0, (%[re]sp)". + +* Add assembly-time relaxation option for ARC cpus. + +Changes in 2.26: + +* Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,gas} to + decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default. + +* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. Remove + assembler support for Argonaut RISC architectures. + +* Symbol and label names can now be enclosed in double quotes (") which allows + them to contain characters that are not part of valid symbol names in high + level languages. + +* Added the correctly spelled -march=armv6kz, for ARMv6KZ support. The + previous spelling, -march=armv6zk, is still accepted. + +* Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the Aarch64 port. + Support for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD, LOR and PAN architecture + extensions has also been added to the Aarch64 port. + +* Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support + for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD and PAN architecture extensions has also + been added to the ARM port. + +* Extend --compress-debug-sections option to support + --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF + targets. + +* --compress-debug-sections is turned on for Linux/x86 by default. + +Changes in 2.25: + +* Add support for the AVR Tiny microcontrollers. + +* Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k. + +* Enhanced the ARM port to accept the assembler output from the CodeComposer + Studio tool. Support is enabled via the new command line option -mccs. * Add support for the Andes NDS32. @@ -617,7 +676,7 @@ Changes in 1.93.01: of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed. -Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +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