X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ld%2FNEWS;h=2a0b4ac704a088a24cfc1633785a50477513c4db;hb=c88960d081f0b37ec03c66a13115e2a68e40d1ad;hp=239ad1a381f97db379c16e56f21c88d20c0a579d;hpb=b9c361e0ad33f2c841067fd4bf0959a72ad5a265;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS index 239ad1a381..2a0b4ac704 100644 --- a/ld/NEWS +++ b/ld/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,109 @@ -*- text -*- +Changes in 2.28: + +* Extended the --out-implib= option, previously restricted to x86 PE + targets, to any ELF based target. This allows the generation of an import + library for an ELF executable, which can then be used by another application + to link against the executable. + +Changes in 2.27: + +* Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should + be enabled in ELF linker by default. Default to yes for all Linux + targets except FRV, HPPA, IA64 and MIPS. + +* Support for -z noreloc-overflow in the x86-64 ELF linker to disable + relocation overflow check. + +* Add -z common/-z nocommon options for ELF targets to control whether to + convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type during a relocatable link. + +* Support for -z nodynamic-undefined-weak in the x86 ELF linker, which + avoids dynamic relocations against undefined weak symbols in executable. + +* The NOCROSSREFSTO command was added to the linker script language. + +* Add --no-apply-dynamic-relocs to the AArch64 linker to do not apply link-time + values for dynamic relocations. + +Changes in 2.26: + +* Add --fix-stm32l4xx-629360 to the ARM linker to enable a link-time + workaround for a bug in the bus matrix / memory controller for some of + the STM32 Cortex-M4 based products (STM32L4xx) + +* Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,ld} to + decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default. + +* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. + +* Experimental support for linker garbage collection (--gc-sections) + has been enabled for COFF and PE based targets. + +* New command line option for ELF targets to compress DWARF debug + sections, --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]. + +* New command line option, --orphan-handling=[place|warn|error|discard], to + adjust how orphan sections are handled. The default is 'place' which gives + the current behaviour, 'warn' and 'error' issue a warning or error + respectively when orphan sections are found, and 'discard' will discard all + orphan sections. + +* Add support for LLVM plugin. + +* Add --print-memory-usage option to report memory blocks usage. + +* Add --require-defined option, it's like --undefined except the new symbol + must be defined by the end of the link. + +Changes in 2.25: + +* PE binaries now once again contain real timestamps by default. To disable + the inclusion of a timestamp in a PE binary, use the --no-insert-timestamp + command line option. + +* Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k. + +* Add support for the --build-id command line option to COFF based targets. + +* x86/x86_64 pe-coff now supports the --build-id option. + +* Add support for the Andes NDS32. + +Changes in 2.24: + +* Add LOG2CEIL() builtin function to the linker script language + +* Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor. + +* Add support for Altera Nios II. + +* Add support for the V850E3V5 architecture. + +* Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor. + +* --enable-new-dtags no longer generates old dtags in addition to new dtags. + +* Remove linker support for MIPS ECOFF targets. + +* Add ALIGN_WITH_INPUT to the linker script language to force the alignment of + an output section to use the maximum alignment of all its input sections. + +Changes in 2.23: + +* Enable compressed debug section feature for x86/x86_64 pe-coff. + +* Add support for the 64-bit ARM architecture: AArch64. + +* Added SORT_NONE to the linker script language to disable section sorting. + +* Add a linker-provided symbol when producing ELF output, '__ehdr_start' + to point to the ELF file header (and nearby program headers) in the + program's memory image. + +* Add support for S12X processor. + * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture. * Add support for the Freescale XGATE architecture. @@ -101,7 +205,7 @@ Changes in 2.20: * Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture. -* Add CR16 ELF --embedded-relocs (used to embedded relocations into binaries +* Add CR16 ELF --embedded-relocs (used to embedded relocations into binaries for Embedded-PIC code) option. * Add to the PE/PE+ targets the support of two different kinds of @@ -545,6 +649,12 @@ Changes in version 2.1: other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. +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: