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3Changes in 2.33:
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5* Add support for the Arm Scalable Vector Extension version 2 (SVE2)
6 instructions.
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8* Add support for the Arm Transactional Memory Extension (TME)
9 instructions.
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11* Add support for the Armv8.1-M Mainline and M-profile Vector Extension (MVE)
12 instructions.
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14* For MIPS, Add -m[no-]fix-loongson3-llsc option to fix (or not) Loongson3
15 LLSC Errata. Add a --enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=[yes|no] configure
16 time option to set the default behavior. Set the default if the configure
17 option is not used to "no".
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19* Add support for the Arm Cortex-A76AE, Cortex-A77 and Cortex-M35P
20 processors.
21
22* Add support for the AArch64 Cortex-A34, Cortex-A65, Cortex-A65AE,
23 Cortex-A76AE, and Cortex-A77 processors.
24
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25* Add .float16 directive for both Arm and AArch64 to allow encoding of 16-bit
26 floating point literals. Add .float16_format directive and
27 -mfp16-format=[ieee|alternative] option for Arm to control the format of the
28 encoding.
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30* Add --gdwarf-cie-version command line flag. This allows control over which
31 version of DWARF CIE the assembler creates.
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33Changes in 2.32:
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35* Add -mvexwig=[0|1] option to x86 assembler to control encoding of
36 VEX.W-ignored (WIG) VEX instructions.
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38* Add -mx86-used-note=[yes|no] option to generate (or not) x86 GNU property
39 notes. Add a --enable-x86-used-note configure time option to set the
40 default behavior. Set the default if the configure option is not used
41 to "no".
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43* Add support for the MIPS Loongson EXTensions R2 (EXT2) instructions.
44
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45* Add support for the MIPS Loongson EXTensions (EXT) instructions.
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47* Add support for the MIPS Loongson Content Address Memory (CAM) ASE.
48
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49* Add support for the C-SKY processor series.
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51* Add support for the MIPS Loongson MultiMedia extensions Instructions (MMI)
52 ASE.
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54Changes in 2.31:
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56* The ADR and ADRL pseudo-instructions supported by the ARM assembler
57 now only set the bottom bit of the address of thumb function symbols
58 if the -mthumb-interwork command line option is active.
59
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60* Add support for the MIPS Global INValidate (GINV) ASE.
61
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62* Add support for the MIPS Cyclic Redudancy Check (CRC) ASE.
63
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64* Add support for the Freescale S12Z architecture.
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66* Add --generate-missing-build-notes=[yes|no] option to create (or not) GNU
67 Build Attribute notes if none are present in the input sources. Add a
68 --enable-generate-build-notes=[yes|no] configure time option to set the
69 default behaviour. Set the default if the configure option is not used
70 to "no".
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72* Remove -mold-gcc command-line option for x86 targets.
73
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74* Add -O[2|s] command-line options to x86 assembler to enable alternate
75 shorter instruction encoding.
76
8f065d3b 77* Add support for .nops directive. It is currently supported only for
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78 x86 targets.
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80Changes in 2.30:
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82* Add support for loaction views in DWARF debug line information.
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84Changes in 2.29:
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86* Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND.
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88* Add support for the WebAssembly file format and wasm32 ELF conversion.
89
7e0de605 90* PowerPC gas now checks that the correct register class is used in
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91 instructions. For instance, "addi %f4,%cr3,%r31" warns three times
92 that the registers are invalid.
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94* Add support for the Texas Instruments PRU processor.
95
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96* Support for the ARMv8-R architecture and Cortex-R52 processor has been
97 added to the ARM port.
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99Changes in 2.28:
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101* Add support for the RISC-V architecture.
102
b19ea8d2 103* Add support for the ARM Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 processors.
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105Changes in 2.27:
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107* Default to --enable-compressed-debug-sections=gas for Linux/x86 targets.
108
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109* Add --no-pad-sections to stop the assembler from padding the end of output
110 sections up to their alignment boundary.
111
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112* Support for the ARMv8-M architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support
113 for the ARMv8-M Security and DSP Extensions has also been added to the ARM
114 port.
115
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116* ARC backend accepts .extInstruction, .extCondCode, .extAuxRegister, and
117 .extCoreRegister pseudo-ops that allow an user to define custom
118 instructions, conditional codes, auxiliary and core registers.
119
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120* Add a configure option --enable-elf-stt-common to decide whether ELF
121 assembler should generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type by
122 default. Default to no.
123
a05a5b64 124* New command-line option --elf-stt-common= for ELF targets to control
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125 whether to generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type.
126
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127* Add ability to set section flags and types via numeric values for ELF
128 based targets.
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130* Add a configure option --enable-x86-relax-relocations to decide whether
131 x86 assembler should generate relax relocations by default. Default to
132 yes, except for x86 Solaris targets older than Solaris 12.
133
a05a5b64 134* New command-line option -mrelax-relocations= for x86 target to control
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135 whether to generate relax relocations.
136
a05a5b64 137* New command-line option -mfence-as-lock-add=yes for x86 target to encode
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138 lfence, mfence and sfence as "lock addl $0x0, (%[re]sp)".
139
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140* Add assembly-time relaxation option for ARC cpus.
141
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142* Add --with-cpu=TYPE configure option for ARC gas. This allows the default
143 cpu type to be adjusted at configure time.
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145Changes in 2.26:
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147* Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,gas} to
148 decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default.
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150* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. Remove
151 assembler support for Argonaut RISC architectures.
152
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153* Symbol and label names can now be enclosed in double quotes (") which allows
154 them to contain characters that are not part of valid symbol names in high
155 level languages.
156
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157* Added the correctly spelled -march=armv6kz, for ARMv6KZ support. The
158 previous spelling, -march=armv6zk, is still accepted.
159
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160* Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the Aarch64 port.
161 Support for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD, LOR and PAN architecture
162 extensions has also been added to the Aarch64 port.
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164* Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support
165 for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD and PAN architecture extensions has also
166 been added to the ARM port.
167
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168* Extend --compress-debug-sections option to support
169 --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF
170 targets.
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172* --compress-debug-sections is turned on for Linux/x86 by default.
173
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174Changes in 2.25:
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176* Add support for the AVR Tiny microcontrollers.
177
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178* Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k.
179
2e6976a8 180* Enhanced the ARM port to accept the assembler output from the CodeComposer
a05a5b64 181 Studio tool. Support is enabled via the new command-line option -mccs.
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183* Add support for the Andes NDS32.
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185Changes in 2.24:
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187* Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor.
188
a05a5b64 189* Add -gdwarf-sections command-line option to enable per-code-section
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190 generation of DWARF .debug_line sections.
191
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192* Add support for Altera Nios II.
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194* Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor.
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196* Add support for the v850e3v5.
197
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198* Remove assembler support for MIPS ECOFF targets.
199
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200Changes in 2.23:
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202* Add support for the 64-bit ARM architecture: AArch64.
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204* Add support for S12X processor.
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206* Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture.
207
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208* Add support for the Freescale XGATE architecture.
209
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210* Add support for .bundle_align_mode, .bundle_lock, and .bundle_unlock
211 directives. These are currently available only for x86 and ARM targets.
212
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213* Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture.
214
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215* Add support for the Adapteva EPIPHANY architecture.
216
fe13e45b 217* For x86, allow 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax.
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219Changes in 2.22:
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69f56ae1 221* Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures.
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90b3661c 223Changes in 2.21:
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225* Gas no longer requires doubling of ampersands in macros.
226
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227* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.
228
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229* GAS now understands an extended syntax in the .section directive flags
230 for COFF targets that allows the section's alignment to be specified. This
231 feature has also been backported to the 2.20 release series, starting with
232 2.20.1.
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234* Add support for the Renesas RX processor.
235
a05a5b64 236* New command-line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests
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237 compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output
238 file. Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and
239 gold, but not currently by Gnu ld.
240
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241Changes in 2.20:
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243* Added support for v850e2 and v850e2v3.
244
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245* GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type
246 pseudo op. It marks the symbol as being globally unique in the entire
247 process.
248
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249* ARM assembler now supports .inst[.nw] pseudo-ops to insert opcodes specified
250 in binary rather than text.
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252* Add support for common symbol alignment to PE formats.
253
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254* Add support for the new discriminator column in the DWARF line table,
255 with a discriminator operand for the .loc directive.
256
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257* Add support for Sunplus score architecture.
258
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259* The .type pseudo-op now accepts a type of STT_GNU_IFUNC which can be used to
260 indicate that if the symbol is the target of a relocation, its value should
261 not be use. Instead the function should be invoked and its result used as
262 the value.
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264* Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture.
265
fa94de6b 266* Add support for Xilinx MicroBlaze architecture.
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268Changes in 2.19:
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270* New pseudo op .cfi_val_encoded_addr, to record constant addresses in unwind
271 tables without runtime relocation.
272
a05a5b64 273* New command-line option, -h-tick-hex, for sh, m32c, and h8/300 targets, which
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274 adds compatibility with H'00 style hex constants.
275
a05a5b64 276* New command-line option, -msse-check=[none|error|warning], for x86
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277 targets.
278
a05a5b64 279* New sub-option added to the assembler's -a command-line switch to
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280 generate a listing output. The 'g' sub-option will insert into the listing
281 various information about the assembly, such as assembler version, the
a05a5b64 282 command-line options used, and a time stamp.
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a05a5b64 284* New command-line option -msse2avx for x86 target to encode SSE
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285 instructions with VEX prefix.
286
f1f8f695 287* Add Intel XSAVE, EPT, MOVBE, AES, PCLMUL, AVX/FMA support for x86 target.
c0f3af97 288
a05a5b64 289* New command-line options, -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mtune=CPU,
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290 -mmnemonic=[att|intel], -msyntax=[att|intel], -mindex-reg,
291 -mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc, for x86 targets.
292
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293* Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new
294 pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64.
295
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296* Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
297
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298Changes in 2.18:
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300* The GAS sources are now released under the GPLv3.
301
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302* Support for the National Semiconductor CR16 target has been added.
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304* Added gas .reloc pseudo. This is a low-level interface for creating
305 relocations.
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307* Add support for x86_64 PE+ target.
308
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311Changes in 2.17:
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313* Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems.
314
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315* Support for ms2 architecture has been added.
316
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317* Support for the Z80 processor family has been added.
318
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319* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra
320 switches can be read from <file>.
321
a05a5b64 322* The SH target supports a new command-line switch --enable-reg-prefix which,
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323 if enabled, will allow register names to be optionally prefixed with a $
324 character. This allows register names to be distinguished from label names.
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326* Macros with a variable number of arguments are now supported. See the
327 documentation for how this works.
328
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329* Added --reduce-memory-overheads switch to reduce the size of the hash
330 tables used, at the expense of longer assembly times, and
331 --hash-size=<NUMBER> to set the size of the hash tables used by gas.
332
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333* Macro names and macro parameter names can now be any identifier that would
334 also be legal as a symbol elsewhere. For macro parameter names, this is
335 known to cause problems in certain sources when the respective target uses
336 characters inconsistently, and thus macro parameter references may no longer
337 be recognized as such (see the documentation for details).
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339* Support the .f_floating, .d_floating, .g_floating and .h_floating directives
340 for the VAX target in order to be more compatible with the VAX MACRO
341 assembler.
342
a05a5b64 343* New command-line option -mtune=[itanium1|itanium2] for IA64 targets.
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345Changes in 2.16:
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347* Redefinition of macros now results in an error.
348
a05a5b64 349* New command-line option -mhint.b=[ok|warning|error] for IA64 targets.
91d777ee 350
a05a5b64 351* New command-line option -munwind-check=[warning|error] for IA64
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352 targets.
353
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354* The IA64 port now uses automatic dependency violation removal as its default
355 mode.
356
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357* Port to MAXQ processor contributed by HCL Tech.
358
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359* Added support for generating unwind tables for ARM ELF targets.
360
a05a5b64 361* Add a -g command-line option to generate debug information in the target's
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362 preferred debug format.
363
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364* Support for the crx-elf target added.
365
1a320fbb 366* Support for the sh-symbianelf target added.
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368* Added a pseudo-op (.secrel32) to generate 32 bit section relative relocations
369 on pe[i]-i386; required for this target's DWARF 2 support.
370
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371* Support for Motorola MCF521x/5249/547x/548x added.
372
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373* Support for ColdFire EMAC instructions added and Motorola syntax for MAC/EMAC
374 instrucitons.
375
a05a5b64 376* New command-line option -mno-shared for MIPS ELF targets.
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a05a5b64 378* New command-line option --alternate and pseudo-ops .altmacro and .noaltmacro
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379 added to enter (and leave) alternate macro syntax mode.
380
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381Changes in 2.15:
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383* The MIPS -membedded-pic option (Embedded-PIC code generation) is
384 deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
385
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386* Added PIC m32r Linux (ELF) and support to M32R assembler.
387
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388* Added support for ARM V6.
389
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390* Added support for sh4a and variants.
391
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392* Support for Renesas M32R2 added.
393
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394* Limited support for Mapping Symbols as specified in the ARM ELF
395 specification has been added to the arm assembler.
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397* On ARM architectures, added a new gas directive ".unreq" that undoes
398 definitions created by ".req".
399
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400* Support for Motorola ColdFire MCF528x added.
401
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402* Added --gstabs+ switch to enable the generation of STABS debug format
403 information with GNU extensions.
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405* Added support for MIPS64 Release 2.
406
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407* Added support for v850e1.
408
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409* Added -n switch for x86 assembler. By default, x86 GAS replaces
410 multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code sections
411 with multi-byte nop instructions such as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi. This
412 switch disables the optimization.
413
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414* Removed -n option from MIPS assembler. It was not useful, and confused the
415 existing -non_shared option.
416
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417Changes in 2.14:
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419* Added support for MIPS32 Release 2.
420
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421* Added support for Xtensa architecture.
422
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423* Support for Intel's iWMMXt processor (an ARM variant) added.
424
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425* An assembler test generator has been contributed and an example file that
426 uses it (gas/testsuite/gas/all/test-gen.c and test-exmaple.c).
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428* Support for SH2E added.
429
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430* GASP has now been removed.
431
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432* Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of
433 DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal.
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435* Support for the Ubicom IP2xxx microcontroller added.
436
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437Changes in 2.13:
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439* Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
440 and FR500 included.
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a40cbfa3 442* Support for DLX processor added.
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444* GASP has now been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use
445 the macro facilities in GAS instead.
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447* GASP now correctly parses floating point numbers. Unless the base is
448 explicitly specified, they are interpreted as decimal numbers regardless of
449 the currently specified base.
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451Changes in 2.12:
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a40cbfa3 453* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
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a40cbfa3 455* Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores.
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457* The ARM assembler now accepts -march=..., -mcpu=... and -mfpu=... for
458 specifying the target instruction set. The old method of specifying the
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459 target processor has been deprecated, but is still accepted for
460 compatibility.
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462* Support for the VFP floating-point instruction set has been added to
463 the ARM assembler.
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465* New psuedo op: .incbin to include a set of binary data at a given point
466 in the assembly. Contributed by Anders Norlander.
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468* The MIPS assembler now accepts -march/-mtune. -mcpu has been deprecated
469 but still works for compatability.
ec68c924 470
fa94de6b 471* The MIPS assembler no longer issues a warning by default when it
a05a5b64 472 generates a nop instruction from a macro. The new command-line option
a40cbfa3 473 -n will turn on the warning.
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475Changes in 2.11:
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477* Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff.
478
a40cbfa3 479* x86 gas now supports the full Pentium4 instruction set.
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a40cbfa3 481* Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs.
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a40cbfa3 483* Support for Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12.
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a40cbfa3 485* Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C54x (tic54x).
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a40cbfa3 487* Support for IA-64.
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a40cbfa3 489* Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt.
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a40cbfa3 491* Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
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a40cbfa3 493* x86 gas has a new .arch pseudo op to specify the target CPU architecture.
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a05a5b64 495* x86 gas -q command-line option quietens warnings about register size changes
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496 due to suffix, indirect jmp/call without `*', stand-alone prefixes, and
497 translating various deprecated floating point instructions.
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499Changes in 2.10:
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501* Support for the ARM msr instruction was changed to only allow an immediate
502 operand when altering the flags field.
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a40cbfa3 504* Support for ATMEL AVR.
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a40cbfa3 506* Support for IBM 370 ELF. Somewhat experimental.
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a40cbfa3 508* Support for numbers with suffixes.
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a40cbfa3 510* Added support for breaking to the end of repeat loops.
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a40cbfa3 512* Added support for parallel instruction syntax (DOUBLEBAR_PARALLEL).
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a40cbfa3 514* New .elseif pseudo-op added.
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a40cbfa3 516* New --fatal-warnings option.
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a40cbfa3 518* picoJava architecture support added.
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a40cbfa3 520* Motorola MCore 210 processor support added.
041dd5a9 521
fa94de6b 522* A new pseudo-op .intel_syntax has been implemented to allow gas to parse i386
a40cbfa3 523 assembly programs with intel syntax.
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a40cbfa3 525* New pseudo-ops .func,.endfunc to aid in debugging user-written assembler code.
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a40cbfa3 527* Added -gdwarf2 option to generate DWARF 2 debugging information.
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a40cbfa3 529* Full 16-bit mode support for i386.
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fa94de6b 531* Greatly improved instruction operand checking for i386. This change will
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532 produce errors or warnings on incorrect assembly code that previous versions
533 of gas accepted. If you get unexpected messages from code that worked with
534 older versions of gas, please double check the code before reporting a bug.
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a40cbfa3 536* Weak symbol support added for COFF targets.
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a40cbfa3 538* Mitsubishi D30V support added.
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a40cbfa3 540* Texas Instruments c80 (tms320c80) support added.
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a40cbfa3 542* i960 ELF support added.
bedf545c 543
a40cbfa3 544* ARM ELF support added.
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a40cbfa3 548* Texas Instruments c30 (tms320c30) support added.
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fa94de6b 550* The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs
a40cbfa3 551 and gcc 2.8. The new --traditional-format option disables this optimization.
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a40cbfa3 553* Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information.
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fa94de6b 555* The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a
a40cbfa3 556 listing.
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a40cbfa3 558* Added -MD option to print dependencies.
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560Changes in 2.8:
561
a40cbfa3 562* BeOS support added.
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a40cbfa3 564* MIPS16 support added.
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a40cbfa3 566* Motorola ColdFire 5200 support added (configure for m68k and use -m5200).
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a40cbfa3 568* Alpha/VMS support added.
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571 --disp-size-default-16, and --disp-size-default-32 added.
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573* The alignment directives now take an optional third argument, which is the
574 maximum number of bytes to skip. If doing the alignment would require
575 skipping more than the given number of bytes, the alignment is not done at
576 all.
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a40cbfa3 578* The ELF assembler has a new pseudo-op, .symver, used for symbol versioning.
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580* The -a option takes a new suboption, c (e.g., -alc), to skip false
581 conditionals in listings.
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584 the symbol is already defined.
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586Changes in 2.7:
587
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589 etc.) if -mregnames is used. Symbolic names preceded by a '%' (%r0, etc.)
590 can be used any time. PowerPC 860 move to/from SPR instructions have been
591 added.
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a40cbfa3 593* Alpha Linux (ELF) support added.
252b5132 594
a40cbfa3 595* PowerPC ELF support added.
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a40cbfa3 597* m68k Linux (ELF) support added.
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a40cbfa3 599* i960 Hx/Jx support added.
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a40cbfa3 601* i386/PowerPC gnu-win32 support added.
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604 default is to build COFF-only support. To get a set of tools that generate
fa94de6b 605 ELF (they'll understand both COFF and ELF), you must configure with
a40cbfa3 606 target=i386-unknown-sco3.2v5elf.
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a40cbfa3 608* m88k-motorola-sysv3* support added.
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610Changes in 2.6:
611
a40cbfa3 612* Gas now directly supports macros, without requiring GASP.
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614* Gas now has an MRI assembler compatibility mode. Use -M or --mri to select
615 MRI mode. The pseudo-op ``.mri 1'' will switch into the MRI mode until the
616 ``.mri 0'' is seen; this can be convenient for inline assembler code.
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a40cbfa3 618* Added --defsym SYM=VALUE option.
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a40cbfa3 620* Added -mips4 support to MIPS assembler.
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a40cbfa3 622* Added PIC support to Solaris and SPARC SunOS 4 assembler.
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624Changes in 2.4:
625
a40cbfa3 626* Converted this directory to use an autoconf-generated configure script.
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a40cbfa3 628* ARM support, from Richard Earnshaw.
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630* Updated VMS support, from Pat Rankin, including considerably improved
631 debugging support.
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a40cbfa3 633* Support for the control registers in the 68060.
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a40cbfa3 635* Handles (ignores) a new directive ".this_GCC_requires_the_GNU_assembler", to
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637 features not available in the native assembler. If the native assembler is
a40cbfa3 638 used, it should become obvious pretty quickly what the problem is.
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a40cbfa3 640* Usage message is available with "--help".
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fa94de6b 642* The GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp) is included. (Actually, it was in 2.3
a40cbfa3 643 also, but didn't get into the NEWS file.)
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a40cbfa3 645* Weak symbol support for a.out.
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fa94de6b 647* A bug in the listing code which could cause an infinite loop has been fixed.
a40cbfa3 648 Bugs in listings when generating a COFF object file have also been fixed.
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650* Initial i386-svr4 PIC implementation from Eric Youngdale, based on code by
651 Paul Kranenburg.
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653* Improved Alpha support. Immediate constants can have a much larger range
654 now. Support for the 21164 has been contributed by Digital.
252b5132 655
a40cbfa3 656* Updated ns32k (pc532-mach, netbsd532) support from Ian Dall.
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658Changes in 2.3:
659
a40cbfa3 660* Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie and Ken Raeburn.
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a40cbfa3 662* RS/6000 and PowerPC support by Ian Taylor.
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664* VMS command scripts (make-gas.com, config-gas.com) have been worked on a bit,
665 based on mail received from various people. The `-h#' option should work
666 again too.
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a40cbfa3 668* HP-PA work, by Jeff Law. Note, for the PA, gas-2.3 has been designed to work
fa94de6b 669 with gdb-4.12 and gcc-2.6. As gcc-2.6 has not been released yet, a special
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670 version of gcc-2.5.8 has been patched to work with gas-2.3. You can retrieve
671 this special version of gcc-2.5.8 via anonymous ftp from jaguar.cs.utah.edu
672 in the "dist" directory.
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674* Vax support in gas fixed for BSD, so it builds and seems to run a couple
675 simple tests okay. I haven't put it through extensive testing. (GNU make is
676 currently required for BSD 4.3 builds.)
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fa94de6b 678* Support for the DEC Alpha, running OSF/1 (ECOFF format). The gas support is
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680 the alpha-a.out support is pretty badly mangled, and much of it removed;
681 making it work will require rewriting it as BFD support for the format anyways.
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a40cbfa3 683* Irix 5 support.
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fa94de6b 685* The test suites have been fixed up a bit, so that they should work with a
a40cbfa3 686 couple different versions of expect and dejagnu.
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689 flexibility in evaluating them in some cases. Some details of relocation
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690 handling have also changed, and simple constant pool management has been
691 added, to make the Alpha port easier.
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694 intended to be used with the gcc "-Q" option, which prints out times spent in
695 various phases of compilation. (You should be able to get all of them
696 printed out with "gcc -Q -Wa,--statistics", I think.)
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698Changes in 2.2:
699
a40cbfa3 700* RS/6000 AIX and MIPS SGI Irix 5 support has been added.
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703 have listed in configure.in) still get rejected without a minor change to
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704 gas/Makefile.in, so people not doing development work shouldn't get the
705 impression that support for such configurations is actually believed to be
706 reliable.
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fa94de6b 708* The program name (usually "as") is printed when a fatal error message is
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709 displayed. This should prevent some confusion about the source of occasional
710 messages about "internal errors".
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fa94de6b 712* ELF support is falling into place. Support for the 386 should be working.
a40cbfa3 713 Support for SPARC Solaris is in. HPPA support from Utah is being integrated.
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716 boiled down to add-symbol, sub-symbol, and constant. This permits slightly
717 more complex calculations involving symbols whose values are not alreadey
718 known.
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a40cbfa3 720* DBX-style debugging info ("stabs") is now supported for COFF formats.
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722 sections: a ".stab" and a ".stabstr" section. The format of the .stab
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723 section is nearly identical to the a.out symbol format, and .stabstr is
724 its string table. For this to be useful, you must have configured GCC
725 to generate stabs (by defining DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO), and must have a GDB
726 that can use the stab sections (4.11 or later).
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fa94de6b 728* LynxOS, on i386 and m68k platforms, is now supported. SPARC LynxOS
a40cbfa3 729 support is in progress.
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731Changes in 2.1:
732
fa94de6b 733* Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have been
a40cbfa3 734 incorporated, but not well tested yet.
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fa94de6b 736* Altered the opcode table split for m68k; it should require less VM to compile
a40cbfa3 737 with gcc now.
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739* Some minor adjustments to add (Convergent Technologies') Miniframe support,
740 suggested by Ronald Cole.
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742* HPPA support (running OSF only, not HPUX) has been contributed by Utah. This
743 includes improved ELF support, which I've started adapting for SPARC Solaris
744 2.x. Integration isn't completely, so it probably won't work.
252b5132 745
a40cbfa3 746* HP9000/300 support, donated by HP, has been merged in.
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a40cbfa3 748* Ian Taylor has finished the MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Irix) support.
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a40cbfa3 750* Better error messages for unsupported configurations (e.g., hppa-hpux).
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a40cbfa3 752* Test suite framework is starting to become reasonable.
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754Changes in 2.0:
755
a40cbfa3 756* Mostly bug fixes.
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a40cbfa3 758* Some more merging of BFD and ELF code, but ELF still doesn't work.
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760Changes in 1.94:
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762* BFD merge is partly done. Adventurous souls may try giving configure the
763 "--with-bfd-assembler" option. Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out
764 format accepts it; SPARC CPU accepts it. It's the default only for OS "elf"
765 or "solaris". (ELF isn't really supported yet. It needs work. I've got
766 some code from Utah for HP-PA ELF, and from DG for m88k ELF, but they're not
767 fully merged yet.)
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769* The 68K opcode table has been split in half. It should now compile under gcc
770 without consuming ridiculous amounts of memory.
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773 saving a little bit of space at runtime.
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775* Support for MIPS, from OSF and Ralph Campbell, has been merged in. The OSF
776 code provided ROSE format support, which I haven't merged in yet. (I can
777 make it available, if anyone wants to try it out.) Ralph's code, for BSD
778 4.4, supports a.out format. We don't have ECOFF support in just yet; it's
779 coming.
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a40cbfa3 781* Support for the Hitachi H8/500 has been added.
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784 Youngdale.
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786Changes in 1.93.01:
787
a40cbfa3 788* For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851.
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a40cbfa3 790* For i386, .align is now power-of-two; was number-of-bytes.
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793 doesn't use underscore prefixes for C labels, it is required, so variable "a0"
794 can be distinguished from the register.
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797 of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed.
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