X-Git-Url: http://drtracing.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ld%2FNEWS;h=dce600d3d9482cdf24e91fa24b606a2fe88bd85b;hb=aec6b87e0b66d707ead62ca40d220ee78b4cf5a5;hp=c44c0abeae8fc652e454327d92c91239044d5ece;hpb=c50415e24c5ae8635d550f0c3699ffd88ff14a9b;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS index c44c0abeae..dce600d3d9 100644 --- a/ld/NEWS +++ b/ld/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,38 @@ -*- 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 @@ -592,7 +625,7 @@ Changes in version 2.1: other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. -Copyright (C) 2012-2014 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