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4e3e1fdf L |
2 | * Default to --enable-compressed-debug-sections=gas for Linux/x86 targets. |
3 | ||
2edb36e7 NC |
4 | * Add --no-pad-sections to stop the assembler from padding the end of output |
5 | sections up to their alignment boundary. | |
6 | ||
15afaa63 TP |
7 | * Support for the ARMv8-M architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support |
8 | for the ARMv8-M Security and DSP Extensions has also been added to the ARM | |
9 | port. | |
10 | ||
f36e33da CZ |
11 | * ARC backend accepts .extInstruction, .extCondCode, .extAuxRegister, and |
12 | .extCoreRegister pseudo-ops that allow an user to define custom | |
13 | instructions, conditional codes, auxiliary and core registers. | |
14 | ||
b8871f35 L |
15 | * Add a configure option --enable-elf-stt-common to decide whether ELF |
16 | assembler should generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type by | |
17 | default. Default to no. | |
18 | ||
19 | * New command line option --elf-stt-common= for ELF targets to control | |
20 | whether to generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type. | |
21 | ||
9fb71ee4 NC |
22 | * Add ability to set section flags and types via numeric values for ELF |
23 | based targets. | |
81c23f82 | 24 | |
0cb4071e L |
25 | * Add a configure option --enable-x86-relax-relocations to decide whether |
26 | x86 assembler should generate relax relocations by default. Default to | |
27 | yes, except for x86 Solaris targets older than Solaris 12. | |
28 | ||
29 | * New command line option -mrelax-relocations= for x86 target to control | |
30 | whether to generate relax relocations. | |
31 | ||
9d3fc4e1 L |
32 | * New command line option -mfence-as-lock-add=yes for x86 target to encode |
33 | lfence, mfence and sfence as "lock addl $0x0, (%[re]sp)". | |
34 | ||
4670103e CZ |
35 | * Add assembly-time relaxation option for ARC cpus. |
36 | ||
9004b6bd AB |
37 | * Add --with-cpu=TYPE configure option for ARC gas. This allows the default |
38 | cpu type to be adjusted at configure time. | |
39 | ||
7feec526 TG |
40 | Changes in 2.26: |
41 | ||
edeefb67 L |
42 | * Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,gas} to |
43 | decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default. | |
e12fe555 | 44 | |
886a2506 NC |
45 | * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. Remove |
46 | assembler support for Argonaut RISC architectures. | |
47 | ||
d02603dc NC |
48 | * Symbol and label names can now be enclosed in double quotes (") which allows |
49 | them to contain characters that are not part of valid symbol names in high | |
50 | level languages. | |
51 | ||
f33026a9 MW |
52 | * Added the correctly spelled -march=armv6kz, for ARMv6KZ support. The |
53 | previous spelling, -march=armv6zk, is still accepted. | |
54 | ||
88f0ea34 MW |
55 | * Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the Aarch64 port. |
56 | Support for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD, LOR and PAN architecture | |
57 | extensions has also been added to the Aarch64 port. | |
58 | ||
a5932920 MW |
59 | * Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support |
60 | for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD and PAN architecture extensions has also | |
61 | been added to the ARM port. | |
62 | ||
ea556d25 L |
63 | * Extend --compress-debug-sections option to support |
64 | --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF | |
65 | targets. | |
66 | ||
0d2b51ad L |
67 | * --compress-debug-sections is turned on for Linux/x86 by default. |
68 | ||
c50415e2 TG |
69 | Changes in 2.25: |
70 | ||
f36e8886 BS |
71 | * Add support for the AVR Tiny microcontrollers. |
72 | ||
73589c9d CS |
73 | * Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k. |
74 | ||
2e6976a8 DG |
75 | * Enhanced the ARM port to accept the assembler output from the CodeComposer |
76 | Studio tool. Support is enabled via the new command line option -mccs. | |
77 | ||
35c08157 KLC |
78 | * Add support for the Andes NDS32. |
79 | ||
58ca03a2 TG |
80 | Changes in 2.24: |
81 | ||
13761a11 NC |
82 | * Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor. |
83 | ||
b40bf0a2 NC |
84 | * Add -gdwarf-sections command line option to enable per-code-section |
85 | generation of DWARF .debug_line sections. | |
86 | ||
36591ba1 SL |
87 | * Add support for Altera Nios II. |
88 | ||
a3c62988 NC |
89 | * Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor. |
90 | ||
5bf135a7 NC |
91 | * Add support for the v850e3v5. |
92 | ||
e8044f35 RS |
93 | * Remove assembler support for MIPS ECOFF targets. |
94 | ||
af18cb59 TG |
95 | Changes in 2.23: |
96 | ||
da2bb560 NC |
97 | * Add support for the 64-bit ARM architecture: AArch64. |
98 | ||
6927f982 NC |
99 | * Add support for S12X processor. |
100 | ||
b9c361e0 JL |
101 | * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture. |
102 | ||
f6c1a2d5 NC |
103 | * Add support for the Freescale XGATE architecture. |
104 | ||
fa94de6b RM |
105 | * Add support for .bundle_align_mode, .bundle_lock, and .bundle_unlock |
106 | directives. These are currently available only for x86 and ARM targets. | |
107 | ||
99c513f6 DD |
108 | * Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture. |
109 | ||
cfb8c092 NC |
110 | * Add support for the Adapteva EPIPHANY architecture. |
111 | ||
fe13e45b | 112 | * For x86, allow 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax. |
29c048b6 | 113 | |
a7142d94 TG |
114 | Changes in 2.22: |
115 | ||
69f56ae1 | 116 | * Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures. |
44f45767 | 117 | |
90b3661c | 118 | Changes in 2.21: |
44f45767 | 119 | |
5fec8599 L |
120 | * Gas no longer requires doubling of ampersands in macros. |
121 | ||
40b36596 JM |
122 | * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family. |
123 | ||
31907d5e DK |
124 | * GAS now understands an extended syntax in the .section directive flags |
125 | for COFF targets that allows the section's alignment to be specified. This | |
126 | feature has also been backported to the 2.20 release series, starting with | |
127 | 2.20.1. | |
128 | ||
c7927a3c NC |
129 | * Add support for the Renesas RX processor. |
130 | ||
700c4060 CC |
131 | * New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests |
132 | compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output | |
133 | file. Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and | |
134 | gold, but not currently by Gnu ld. | |
135 | ||
81c23f82 TG |
136 | Changes in 2.20: |
137 | ||
1cd986c5 NC |
138 | * Added support for v850e2 and v850e2v3. |
139 | ||
3e7a7d11 NC |
140 | * GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type |
141 | pseudo op. It marks the symbol as being globally unique in the entire | |
142 | process. | |
143 | ||
c921be7d NC |
144 | * ARM assembler now supports .inst[.nw] pseudo-ops to insert opcodes specified |
145 | in binary rather than text. | |
6e33da12 | 146 | |
c1711530 DK |
147 | * Add support for common symbol alignment to PE formats. |
148 | ||
92846e72 CC |
149 | * Add support for the new discriminator column in the DWARF line table, |
150 | with a discriminator operand for the .loc directive. | |
151 | ||
c3b7224a NC |
152 | * Add support for Sunplus score architecture. |
153 | ||
d8045f23 NC |
154 | * The .type pseudo-op now accepts a type of STT_GNU_IFUNC which can be used to |
155 | indicate that if the symbol is the target of a relocation, its value should | |
156 | not be use. Instead the function should be invoked and its result used as | |
157 | the value. | |
fa94de6b | 158 | |
84e94c90 NC |
159 | * Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture. |
160 | ||
fa94de6b | 161 | * Add support for Xilinx MicroBlaze architecture. |
caa03924 | 162 | |
6e33da12 TG |
163 | Changes in 2.19: |
164 | ||
4f6d9c90 DJ |
165 | * New pseudo op .cfi_val_encoded_addr, to record constant addresses in unwind |
166 | tables without runtime relocation. | |
167 | ||
6fd4f6cc DD |
168 | * New command line option, -h-tick-hex, for sh, m32c, and h8/300 targets, which |
169 | adds compatibility with H'00 style hex constants. | |
170 | ||
daf50ae7 L |
171 | * New command line option, -msse-check=[none|error|warning], for x86 |
172 | targets. | |
173 | ||
83f10cb2 NC |
174 | * New sub-option added to the assembler's -a command line switch to |
175 | generate a listing output. The 'g' sub-option will insert into the listing | |
176 | various information about the assembly, such as assembler version, the | |
177 | command line options used, and a time stamp. | |
178 | ||
c0f3af97 L |
179 | * New command line option -msse2avx for x86 target to encode SSE |
180 | instructions with VEX prefix. | |
181 | ||
f1f8f695 | 182 | * Add Intel XSAVE, EPT, MOVBE, AES, PCLMUL, AVX/FMA support for x86 target. |
c0f3af97 | 183 | |
ae40c993 L |
184 | * New command line options, -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mtune=CPU, |
185 | -mmnemonic=[att|intel], -msyntax=[att|intel], -mindex-reg, | |
186 | -mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc, for x86 targets. | |
187 | ||
38a57ae7 NC |
188 | * Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new |
189 | pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64. | |
190 | ||
85f10a01 MM |
191 | * Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port. |
192 | ||
7c3d153f NC |
193 | Changes in 2.18: |
194 | ||
ec2655a6 NC |
195 | * The GAS sources are now released under the GPLv3. |
196 | ||
3d3d428f NC |
197 | * Support for the National Semiconductor CR16 target has been added. |
198 | ||
3f9ce309 AM |
199 | * Added gas .reloc pseudo. This is a low-level interface for creating |
200 | relocations. | |
201 | ||
99ad8390 NC |
202 | * Add support for x86_64 PE+ target. |
203 | ||
1c0d3aa6 | 204 | * Add support for Score target. |
83518699 | 205 | |
ec2655a6 NC |
206 | Changes in 2.17: |
207 | ||
d70c5fc7 NC |
208 | * Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems. |
209 | ||
08333dc4 NS |
210 | * Support for ms2 architecture has been added. |
211 | ||
b7b8fb1d NC |
212 | * Support for the Z80 processor family has been added. |
213 | ||
3e8a519c MM |
214 | * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra |
215 | switches can be read from <file>. | |
216 | ||
37dedf66 NC |
217 | * The SH target supports a new command line switch --enable-reg-prefix which, |
218 | if enabled, will allow register names to be optionally prefixed with a $ | |
219 | character. This allows register names to be distinguished from label names. | |
fa94de6b | 220 | |
6eaeac8a JB |
221 | * Macros with a variable number of arguments are now supported. See the |
222 | documentation for how this works. | |
223 | ||
4bdd3565 NC |
224 | * Added --reduce-memory-overheads switch to reduce the size of the hash |
225 | tables used, at the expense of longer assembly times, and | |
226 | --hash-size=<NUMBER> to set the size of the hash tables used by gas. | |
227 | ||
5e75c3ab JB |
228 | * Macro names and macro parameter names can now be any identifier that would |
229 | also be legal as a symbol elsewhere. For macro parameter names, this is | |
230 | known to cause problems in certain sources when the respective target uses | |
231 | characters inconsistently, and thus macro parameter references may no longer | |
232 | be recognized as such (see the documentation for details). | |
fa94de6b | 233 | |
d2c5f73e NC |
234 | * Support the .f_floating, .d_floating, .g_floating and .h_floating directives |
235 | for the VAX target in order to be more compatible with the VAX MACRO | |
236 | assembler. | |
237 | ||
8c2fda1d L |
238 | * New command line option -mtune=[itanium1|itanium2] for IA64 targets. |
239 | ||
957d91c1 NC |
240 | Changes in 2.16: |
241 | ||
fffeaa5f JB |
242 | * Redefinition of macros now results in an error. |
243 | ||
91d777ee L |
244 | * New command line option -mhint.b=[ok|warning|error] for IA64 targets. |
245 | ||
970d6792 L |
246 | * New command line option -munwind-check=[warning|error] for IA64 |
247 | targets. | |
248 | ||
f1dab70d JB |
249 | * The IA64 port now uses automatic dependency violation removal as its default |
250 | mode. | |
251 | ||
7499d566 NC |
252 | * Port to MAXQ processor contributed by HCL Tech. |
253 | ||
7ed4c4c5 NC |
254 | * Added support for generating unwind tables for ARM ELF targets. |
255 | ||
329e276d NC |
256 | * Add a -g command line option to generate debug information in the target's |
257 | preferred debug format. | |
258 | ||
1fe1f39c NC |
259 | * Support for the crx-elf target added. |
260 | ||
1a320fbb | 261 | * Support for the sh-symbianelf target added. |
1fe1f39c | 262 | |
0503b355 BF |
263 | * Added a pseudo-op (.secrel32) to generate 32 bit section relative relocations |
264 | on pe[i]-i386; required for this target's DWARF 2 support. | |
265 | ||
6b6e92f4 NC |
266 | * Support for Motorola MCF521x/5249/547x/548x added. |
267 | ||
fd99574b NC |
268 | * Support for ColdFire EMAC instructions added and Motorola syntax for MAC/EMAC |
269 | instrucitons. | |
270 | ||
aa6975fb ILT |
271 | * New command line option -mno-shared for MIPS ELF targets. |
272 | ||
caa32fe5 NC |
273 | * New command line option --alternate and pseudo-ops .altmacro and .noaltmacro |
274 | added to enter (and leave) alternate macro syntax mode. | |
275 | ||
0477af35 NC |
276 | Changes in 2.15: |
277 | ||
7a7f4e42 CD |
278 | * The MIPS -membedded-pic option (Embedded-PIC code generation) is |
279 | deprecated and will be removed in a future release. | |
280 | ||
6edf0760 NC |
281 | * Added PIC m32r Linux (ELF) and support to M32R assembler. |
282 | ||
09d92015 MM |
283 | * Added support for ARM V6. |
284 | ||
88da98f3 MS |
285 | * Added support for sh4a and variants. |
286 | ||
eb764db8 NC |
287 | * Support for Renesas M32R2 added. |
288 | ||
88da98f3 MS |
289 | * Limited support for Mapping Symbols as specified in the ARM ELF |
290 | specification has been added to the arm assembler. | |
ed769ec1 | 291 | |
0bbf2aa4 NC |
292 | * On ARM architectures, added a new gas directive ".unreq" that undoes |
293 | definitions created by ".req". | |
294 | ||
3e602632 NC |
295 | * Support for Motorola ColdFire MCF528x added. |
296 | ||
05da4302 NC |
297 | * Added --gstabs+ switch to enable the generation of STABS debug format |
298 | information with GNU extensions. | |
fa94de6b | 299 | |
6a265366 CD |
300 | * Added support for MIPS64 Release 2. |
301 | ||
8ad30312 NC |
302 | * Added support for v850e1. |
303 | ||
12b55ccc L |
304 | * Added -n switch for x86 assembler. By default, x86 GAS replaces |
305 | multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code sections | |
306 | with multi-byte nop instructions such as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi. This | |
307 | switch disables the optimization. | |
308 | ||
78849248 ILT |
309 | * Removed -n option from MIPS assembler. It was not useful, and confused the |
310 | existing -non_shared option. | |
311 | ||
43c58ae6 CD |
312 | Changes in 2.14: |
313 | ||
69be0a2b CD |
314 | * Added support for MIPS32 Release 2. |
315 | ||
e8fd7476 NC |
316 | * Added support for Xtensa architecture. |
317 | ||
e16bb312 NC |
318 | * Support for Intel's iWMMXt processor (an ARM variant) added. |
319 | ||
cce4814f NC |
320 | * An assembler test generator has been contributed and an example file that |
321 | uses it (gas/testsuite/gas/all/test-gen.c and test-exmaple.c). | |
fa94de6b | 322 | |
5177500f NC |
323 | * Support for SH2E added. |
324 | ||
fea17916 NC |
325 | * GASP has now been removed. |
326 | ||
004d9caf NC |
327 | * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of |
328 | DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal. | |
fa94de6b | 329 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
330 | * Support for the Ubicom IP2xxx microcontroller added. |
331 | ||
2cbb2eef NC |
332 | Changes in 2.13: |
333 | ||
a40cbfa3 NC |
334 | * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400 |
335 | and FR500 included. | |
0ebb9a87 | 336 | |
a40cbfa3 | 337 | * Support for DLX processor added. |
52216602 | 338 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
339 | * GASP has now been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use |
340 | the macro facilities in GAS instead. | |
3f965e60 | 341 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
342 | * GASP now correctly parses floating point numbers. Unless the base is |
343 | explicitly specified, they are interpreted as decimal numbers regardless of | |
344 | the currently specified base. | |
1ac57253 | 345 | |
9a66911f NC |
346 | Changes in 2.12: |
347 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 348 | * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson. |
49fda6c8 | 349 | |
a40cbfa3 | 350 | * Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores. |
3b16e843 | 351 | |
fa94de6b RM |
352 | * The ARM assembler now accepts -march=..., -mcpu=... and -mfpu=... for |
353 | specifying the target instruction set. The old method of specifying the | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
354 | target processor has been deprecated, but is still accepted for |
355 | compatibility. | |
03b1477f | 356 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
357 | * Support for the VFP floating-point instruction set has been added to |
358 | the ARM assembler. | |
252b5132 | 359 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
360 | * New psuedo op: .incbin to include a set of binary data at a given point |
361 | in the assembly. Contributed by Anders Norlander. | |
7e005732 | 362 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
363 | * The MIPS assembler now accepts -march/-mtune. -mcpu has been deprecated |
364 | but still works for compatability. | |
ec68c924 | 365 | |
fa94de6b | 366 | * The MIPS assembler no longer issues a warning by default when it |
a40cbfa3 NC |
367 | generates a nop instruction from a macro. The new command line option |
368 | -n will turn on the warning. | |
63486801 | 369 | |
2dac7317 JW |
370 | Changes in 2.11: |
371 | ||
500800ca NC |
372 | * Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff. |
373 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 374 | * x86 gas now supports the full Pentium4 instruction set. |
a167610d | 375 | |
a40cbfa3 | 376 | * Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs. |
c0d8940f | 377 | |
a40cbfa3 | 378 | * Support for Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12. |
df86943d | 379 | |
a40cbfa3 | 380 | * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C54x (tic54x). |
39bec121 | 381 | |
a40cbfa3 | 382 | * Support for IA-64. |
2dac7317 | 383 | |
a40cbfa3 | 384 | * Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt. |
22b36938 | 385 | |
a40cbfa3 | 386 | * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). |
5bcac8a4 | 387 | |
a40cbfa3 | 388 | * x86 gas has a new .arch pseudo op to specify the target CPU architecture. |
a38cf1db | 389 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
390 | * x86 gas -q command line option quietens warnings about register size changes |
391 | due to suffix, indirect jmp/call without `*', stand-alone prefixes, and | |
392 | translating various deprecated floating point instructions. | |
a38cf1db | 393 | |
252b5132 RH |
394 | Changes in 2.10: |
395 | ||
a40cbfa3 NC |
396 | * Support for the ARM msr instruction was changed to only allow an immediate |
397 | operand when altering the flags field. | |
d14442f4 | 398 | |
a40cbfa3 | 399 | * Support for ATMEL AVR. |
adde6300 | 400 | |
a40cbfa3 | 401 | * Support for IBM 370 ELF. Somewhat experimental. |
b5ebe70e | 402 | |
a40cbfa3 | 403 | * Support for numbers with suffixes. |
3fd9f047 | 404 | |
a40cbfa3 | 405 | * Added support for breaking to the end of repeat loops. |
6a6987a9 | 406 | |
a40cbfa3 | 407 | * Added support for parallel instruction syntax (DOUBLEBAR_PARALLEL). |
6a6987a9 | 408 | |
a40cbfa3 | 409 | * New .elseif pseudo-op added. |
3fd9f047 | 410 | |
a40cbfa3 | 411 | * New --fatal-warnings option. |
1f776aa5 | 412 | |
a40cbfa3 | 413 | * picoJava architecture support added. |
252b5132 | 414 | |
a40cbfa3 | 415 | * Motorola MCore 210 processor support added. |
041dd5a9 | 416 | |
fa94de6b | 417 | * A new pseudo-op .intel_syntax has been implemented to allow gas to parse i386 |
a40cbfa3 | 418 | assembly programs with intel syntax. |
252b5132 | 419 | |
a40cbfa3 | 420 | * New pseudo-ops .func,.endfunc to aid in debugging user-written assembler code. |
252b5132 | 421 | |
a40cbfa3 | 422 | * Added -gdwarf2 option to generate DWARF 2 debugging information. |
041dd5a9 | 423 | |
a40cbfa3 | 424 | * Full 16-bit mode support for i386. |
252b5132 | 425 | |
fa94de6b | 426 | * Greatly improved instruction operand checking for i386. This change will |
a40cbfa3 NC |
427 | produce errors or warnings on incorrect assembly code that previous versions |
428 | of gas accepted. If you get unexpected messages from code that worked with | |
429 | older versions of gas, please double check the code before reporting a bug. | |
252b5132 | 430 | |
a40cbfa3 | 431 | * Weak symbol support added for COFF targets. |
252b5132 | 432 | |
a40cbfa3 | 433 | * Mitsubishi D30V support added. |
252b5132 | 434 | |
a40cbfa3 | 435 | * Texas Instruments c80 (tms320c80) support added. |
252b5132 | 436 | |
a40cbfa3 | 437 | * i960 ELF support added. |
bedf545c | 438 | |
a40cbfa3 | 439 | * ARM ELF support added. |
a057431b | 440 | |
252b5132 RH |
441 | Changes in 2.9: |
442 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 443 | * Texas Instruments c30 (tms320c30) support added. |
252b5132 | 444 | |
fa94de6b | 445 | * The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs |
a40cbfa3 | 446 | and gcc 2.8. The new --traditional-format option disables this optimization. |
252b5132 | 447 | |
a40cbfa3 | 448 | * Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information. |
252b5132 | 449 | |
fa94de6b | 450 | * The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a |
a40cbfa3 | 451 | listing. |
252b5132 | 452 | |
a40cbfa3 | 453 | * Added -MD option to print dependencies. |
252b5132 RH |
454 | |
455 | Changes in 2.8: | |
456 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 457 | * BeOS support added. |
252b5132 | 458 | |
a40cbfa3 | 459 | * MIPS16 support added. |
252b5132 | 460 | |
a40cbfa3 | 461 | * Motorola ColdFire 5200 support added (configure for m68k and use -m5200). |
252b5132 | 462 | |
a40cbfa3 | 463 | * Alpha/VMS support added. |
252b5132 | 464 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
465 | * m68k options --base-size-default-16, --base-size-default-32, |
466 | --disp-size-default-16, and --disp-size-default-32 added. | |
252b5132 | 467 | |
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468 | * The alignment directives now take an optional third argument, which is the |
469 | maximum number of bytes to skip. If doing the alignment would require | |
470 | skipping more than the given number of bytes, the alignment is not done at | |
471 | all. | |
252b5132 | 472 | |
a40cbfa3 | 473 | * The ELF assembler has a new pseudo-op, .symver, used for symbol versioning. |
252b5132 | 474 | |
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475 | * The -a option takes a new suboption, c (e.g., -alc), to skip false |
476 | conditionals in listings. | |
252b5132 | 477 | |
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478 | * Added new pseudo-op, .equiv; it's like .equ, except that it is an error if |
479 | the symbol is already defined. | |
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480 | |
481 | Changes in 2.7: | |
482 | ||
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483 | * The PowerPC assembler now allows the use of symbolic register names (r0, |
484 | etc.) if -mregnames is used. Symbolic names preceded by a '%' (%r0, etc.) | |
485 | can be used any time. PowerPC 860 move to/from SPR instructions have been | |
486 | added. | |
252b5132 | 487 | |
a40cbfa3 | 488 | * Alpha Linux (ELF) support added. |
252b5132 | 489 | |
a40cbfa3 | 490 | * PowerPC ELF support added. |
252b5132 | 491 | |
a40cbfa3 | 492 | * m68k Linux (ELF) support added. |
252b5132 | 493 | |
a40cbfa3 | 494 | * i960 Hx/Jx support added. |
252b5132 | 495 | |
a40cbfa3 | 496 | * i386/PowerPC gnu-win32 support added. |
252b5132 | 497 | |
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498 | * SCO ELF support added. For OpenServer 5 targets (i386-unknown-sco3.2v5) the |
499 | default is to build COFF-only support. To get a set of tools that generate | |
fa94de6b | 500 | ELF (they'll understand both COFF and ELF), you must configure with |
a40cbfa3 | 501 | target=i386-unknown-sco3.2v5elf. |
252b5132 | 502 | |
a40cbfa3 | 503 | * m88k-motorola-sysv3* support added. |
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504 | |
505 | Changes in 2.6: | |
506 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 507 | * Gas now directly supports macros, without requiring GASP. |
252b5132 | 508 | |
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509 | * Gas now has an MRI assembler compatibility mode. Use -M or --mri to select |
510 | MRI mode. The pseudo-op ``.mri 1'' will switch into the MRI mode until the | |
511 | ``.mri 0'' is seen; this can be convenient for inline assembler code. | |
252b5132 | 512 | |
a40cbfa3 | 513 | * Added --defsym SYM=VALUE option. |
252b5132 | 514 | |
a40cbfa3 | 515 | * Added -mips4 support to MIPS assembler. |
252b5132 | 516 | |
a40cbfa3 | 517 | * Added PIC support to Solaris and SPARC SunOS 4 assembler. |
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518 | |
519 | Changes in 2.4: | |
520 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 521 | * Converted this directory to use an autoconf-generated configure script. |
252b5132 | 522 | |
a40cbfa3 | 523 | * ARM support, from Richard Earnshaw. |
252b5132 | 524 | |
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525 | * Updated VMS support, from Pat Rankin, including considerably improved |
526 | debugging support. | |
252b5132 | 527 | |
a40cbfa3 | 528 | * Support for the control registers in the 68060. |
252b5132 | 529 | |
a40cbfa3 | 530 | * Handles (ignores) a new directive ".this_GCC_requires_the_GNU_assembler", to |
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531 | provide for possible future gcc changes, for targets where gas provides some |
532 | features not available in the native assembler. If the native assembler is | |
a40cbfa3 | 533 | used, it should become obvious pretty quickly what the problem is. |
252b5132 | 534 | |
a40cbfa3 | 535 | * Usage message is available with "--help". |
252b5132 | 536 | |
fa94de6b | 537 | * The GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp) is included. (Actually, it was in 2.3 |
a40cbfa3 | 538 | also, but didn't get into the NEWS file.) |
252b5132 | 539 | |
a40cbfa3 | 540 | * Weak symbol support for a.out. |
252b5132 | 541 | |
fa94de6b | 542 | * A bug in the listing code which could cause an infinite loop has been fixed. |
a40cbfa3 | 543 | Bugs in listings when generating a COFF object file have also been fixed. |
252b5132 | 544 | |
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545 | * Initial i386-svr4 PIC implementation from Eric Youngdale, based on code by |
546 | Paul Kranenburg. | |
252b5132 | 547 | |
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548 | * Improved Alpha support. Immediate constants can have a much larger range |
549 | now. Support for the 21164 has been contributed by Digital. | |
252b5132 | 550 | |
a40cbfa3 | 551 | * Updated ns32k (pc532-mach, netbsd532) support from Ian Dall. |
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552 | |
553 | Changes in 2.3: | |
554 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 555 | * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie and Ken Raeburn. |
252b5132 | 556 | |
a40cbfa3 | 557 | * RS/6000 and PowerPC support by Ian Taylor. |
252b5132 | 558 | |
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559 | * VMS command scripts (make-gas.com, config-gas.com) have been worked on a bit, |
560 | based on mail received from various people. The `-h#' option should work | |
561 | again too. | |
252b5132 | 562 | |
a40cbfa3 | 563 | * HP-PA work, by Jeff Law. Note, for the PA, gas-2.3 has been designed to work |
fa94de6b | 564 | with gdb-4.12 and gcc-2.6. As gcc-2.6 has not been released yet, a special |
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565 | version of gcc-2.5.8 has been patched to work with gas-2.3. You can retrieve |
566 | this special version of gcc-2.5.8 via anonymous ftp from jaguar.cs.utah.edu | |
567 | in the "dist" directory. | |
252b5132 | 568 | |
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569 | * Vax support in gas fixed for BSD, so it builds and seems to run a couple |
570 | simple tests okay. I haven't put it through extensive testing. (GNU make is | |
571 | currently required for BSD 4.3 builds.) | |
252b5132 | 572 | |
fa94de6b | 573 | * Support for the DEC Alpha, running OSF/1 (ECOFF format). The gas support is |
a40cbfa3 NC |
574 | based on code donated by CMU, which used an a.out-based format. I'm afraid |
575 | the alpha-a.out support is pretty badly mangled, and much of it removed; | |
576 | making it work will require rewriting it as BFD support for the format anyways. | |
252b5132 | 577 | |
a40cbfa3 | 578 | * Irix 5 support. |
252b5132 | 579 | |
fa94de6b | 580 | * The test suites have been fixed up a bit, so that they should work with a |
a40cbfa3 | 581 | couple different versions of expect and dejagnu. |
252b5132 | 582 | |
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583 | * Symbols' values are now handled internally as expressions, permitting more |
584 | flexibility in evaluating them in some cases. Some details of relocation | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
585 | handling have also changed, and simple constant pool management has been |
586 | added, to make the Alpha port easier. | |
252b5132 | 587 | |
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588 | * New option "--statistics" for printing out program run times. This is |
589 | intended to be used with the gcc "-Q" option, which prints out times spent in | |
590 | various phases of compilation. (You should be able to get all of them | |
591 | printed out with "gcc -Q -Wa,--statistics", I think.) | |
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592 | |
593 | Changes in 2.2: | |
594 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 595 | * RS/6000 AIX and MIPS SGI Irix 5 support has been added. |
252b5132 | 596 | |
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597 | * Configurations that are still in development (and therefore are convenient to |
598 | have listed in configure.in) still get rejected without a minor change to | |
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599 | gas/Makefile.in, so people not doing development work shouldn't get the |
600 | impression that support for such configurations is actually believed to be | |
601 | reliable. | |
252b5132 | 602 | |
fa94de6b | 603 | * The program name (usually "as") is printed when a fatal error message is |
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604 | displayed. This should prevent some confusion about the source of occasional |
605 | messages about "internal errors". | |
252b5132 | 606 | |
fa94de6b | 607 | * ELF support is falling into place. Support for the 386 should be working. |
a40cbfa3 | 608 | Support for SPARC Solaris is in. HPPA support from Utah is being integrated. |
252b5132 | 609 | |
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610 | * Symbol values are maintained as expressions instead of being immediately |
611 | boiled down to add-symbol, sub-symbol, and constant. This permits slightly | |
612 | more complex calculations involving symbols whose values are not alreadey | |
613 | known. | |
252b5132 | 614 | |
a40cbfa3 | 615 | * DBX-style debugging info ("stabs") is now supported for COFF formats. |
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616 | If any stabs directives are seen in the source, GAS will create two new |
617 | sections: a ".stab" and a ".stabstr" section. The format of the .stab | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
618 | section is nearly identical to the a.out symbol format, and .stabstr is |
619 | its string table. For this to be useful, you must have configured GCC | |
620 | to generate stabs (by defining DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO), and must have a GDB | |
621 | that can use the stab sections (4.11 or later). | |
252b5132 | 622 | |
fa94de6b | 623 | * LynxOS, on i386 and m68k platforms, is now supported. SPARC LynxOS |
a40cbfa3 | 624 | support is in progress. |
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625 | |
626 | Changes in 2.1: | |
627 | ||
fa94de6b | 628 | * Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have been |
a40cbfa3 | 629 | incorporated, but not well tested yet. |
252b5132 | 630 | |
fa94de6b | 631 | * Altered the opcode table split for m68k; it should require less VM to compile |
a40cbfa3 | 632 | with gcc now. |
252b5132 | 633 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
634 | * Some minor adjustments to add (Convergent Technologies') Miniframe support, |
635 | suggested by Ronald Cole. | |
252b5132 | 636 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
637 | * HPPA support (running OSF only, not HPUX) has been contributed by Utah. This |
638 | includes improved ELF support, which I've started adapting for SPARC Solaris | |
639 | 2.x. Integration isn't completely, so it probably won't work. | |
252b5132 | 640 | |
a40cbfa3 | 641 | * HP9000/300 support, donated by HP, has been merged in. |
252b5132 | 642 | |
a40cbfa3 | 643 | * Ian Taylor has finished the MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Irix) support. |
252b5132 | 644 | |
a40cbfa3 | 645 | * Better error messages for unsupported configurations (e.g., hppa-hpux). |
252b5132 | 646 | |
a40cbfa3 | 647 | * Test suite framework is starting to become reasonable. |
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648 | |
649 | Changes in 2.0: | |
650 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 651 | * Mostly bug fixes. |
252b5132 | 652 | |
a40cbfa3 | 653 | * Some more merging of BFD and ELF code, but ELF still doesn't work. |
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654 | |
655 | Changes in 1.94: | |
656 | ||
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657 | * BFD merge is partly done. Adventurous souls may try giving configure the |
658 | "--with-bfd-assembler" option. Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out | |
659 | format accepts it; SPARC CPU accepts it. It's the default only for OS "elf" | |
660 | or "solaris". (ELF isn't really supported yet. It needs work. I've got | |
661 | some code from Utah for HP-PA ELF, and from DG for m88k ELF, but they're not | |
662 | fully merged yet.) | |
252b5132 | 663 | |
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664 | * The 68K opcode table has been split in half. It should now compile under gcc |
665 | without consuming ridiculous amounts of memory. | |
252b5132 | 666 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
667 | * A couple data structures have been reduced in size. This should result in |
668 | saving a little bit of space at runtime. | |
252b5132 | 669 | |
a40cbfa3 NC |
670 | * Support for MIPS, from OSF and Ralph Campbell, has been merged in. The OSF |
671 | code provided ROSE format support, which I haven't merged in yet. (I can | |
672 | make it available, if anyone wants to try it out.) Ralph's code, for BSD | |
673 | 4.4, supports a.out format. We don't have ECOFF support in just yet; it's | |
674 | coming. | |
252b5132 | 675 | |
a40cbfa3 | 676 | * Support for the Hitachi H8/500 has been added. |
252b5132 | 677 | |
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678 | * VMS host and target support should be working now, thanks chiefly to Eric |
679 | Youngdale. | |
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680 | |
681 | Changes in 1.93.01: | |
682 | ||
a40cbfa3 | 683 | * For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851. |
252b5132 | 684 | |
a40cbfa3 | 685 | * For i386, .align is now power-of-two; was number-of-bytes. |
252b5132 | 686 | |
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687 | * For m68k, "%" is now accepted before register names. For COFF format, which |
688 | doesn't use underscore prefixes for C labels, it is required, so variable "a0" | |
689 | can be distinguished from the register. | |
252b5132 | 690 | |
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691 | * Last public release was 1.38. Lots of configuration changes since then, lots |
692 | of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed. | |
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693 | |
694 | \f | |
6f2750fe | 695 | Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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696 | |
697 | Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, | |
698 | are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright | |
699 | notice and this notice are preserved. | |
700 | ||
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703 | End: |