X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ld%2FNEWS;h=dce600d3d9482cdf24e91fa24b606a2fe88bd85b;hb=aec6b87e0b66d707ead62ca40d220ee78b4cf5a5;hp=5217e4c7c27bfad12f0ccc546c8ab054169636b1;hpb=36591ba149edf6c6608d931a6d53bb99849fdc99;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS index 5217e4c7c2..dce600d3d9 100644 --- a/ld/NEWS +++ b/ld/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,58 @@ -*- text -*- +* Support for -z nodynamic-undefined-weak in the x86 ELF linker, which + avoids dynamic relocations against undefined weak symbols in executable. + +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. @@ -8,6 +61,11 @@ * --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. @@ -567,7 +625,7 @@ Changes in version 2.1: other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. -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