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252b5132 | 1 | -*- text -*- |
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301a9420 AM |
3 | * Binutils now supports debuginfod, an HTTP server for distributing |
4 | ELF/DWARF debugging information as well as source code. When built with | |
5 | debuginfod, readelf and objdump can automatically query debuginfod | |
6 | servers for separate debug files when they otherwise cannot be found. | |
7 | To build binutils with debuginfod, pass --with-debuginfod to configure. | |
8 | This requires libdebuginfod, the debuginfod client library. debuginfod | |
9 | is distributed with elfutils, starting with version 0.178. For more | |
10 | information see https://sourceware.org/elfutils. | |
11 | ||
197245e3 FS |
12 | * Add --output option to the "ar" program. This option can be used to specify |
13 | the output directory when extracting members from an archive. | |
14 | ||
64f52b3e FS |
15 | * Add --keep-section option to objcopy and strip. This option keeps the |
16 | specified section from being removed. | |
17 | ||
60391a25 PB |
18 | Changes in 2.33: |
19 | ||
a1c110a3 NC |
20 | * Add --source-comment[=<txt>] option to objdump which if present, |
21 | provides a prefix to source code lines displayed in a disassembly. | |
2c610e4b | 22 | |
fa463e9f N |
23 | * Add --set-section-alignment <section-name>=<align> option to objcopy to allow |
24 | the changing of section alignments. | |
25 | ||
37d0d091 JH |
26 | * Add --verilog-data-width option to objcopy for verilog targets to control |
27 | width of data elements in verilog hex format. | |
28 | ||
514bbb0f AV |
29 | * Add support for the Armv8.1-M Mainline and M-profile Vector Extension (MVE) |
30 | instructions. | |
31 | ||
24841daa NC |
32 | * The separate debug info file options of readelf (--debug-dump=links |
33 | and --debug-dump=follow) and objdump (--dwarf=links and | |
34 | --dwarf=follow-links) will now display and/or follow multiple links if | |
35 | more than one are present in a file. (This usually happens when gcc's | |
36 | -gsplit-dwarf option is used). | |
37 | ||
39f0547e NC |
38 | In addition objdump's --dwarf=follow-links now also affects its other |
39 | display options, so that for example, when combined with --syms it will | |
40 | cause the symbol tables in any linked debug info files to also be | |
41 | displayed. In addition when combined with --disassemble the --dwarf= | |
42 | follow-links option will ensure that any symbol tables in the linked | |
43 | files are read and used when disassembling code in the main file. | |
7d9813f1 NA |
44 | |
45 | * Add support for dumping types encoded in the Compact Type Format | |
46 | to objdump and readelf. | |
47 | ||
f974f26c NC |
48 | Changes in 2.32: |
49 | ||
af03af8f NC |
50 | * The addr2line, c++filt, nm and objdump tools now have a limit on the |
51 | maximum amount of recursion that is allowed whilst demangling strings. | |
52 | The value for this limit is defined by the DEMANGLE_RECRUSE_LIMIT | |
53 | constant declared in the include/demangle.h header file. At the time | |
69799d67 | 54 | of writing this constant has the value of 2048. |
af03af8f NC |
55 | |
56 | The --no-recurse-limit option can be used to remove the limit, restoring | |
57 | the behaviour of earlier versions of these tools. This may be needed in | |
58 | order to dmangle truly complicated names, but it also leaves the tools | |
59 | vulnerable to stack exhaustion from maliciously constructed mangled names. | |
60 | ||
d3def5d7 MY |
61 | * Objdump's --disassemble option can now take a parameter, specifying the |
62 | starting symbol for disassembly. Disassembly will continue from this | |
baae986a | 63 | symbol up to the next symbol or the end of the function. |
d3def5d7 | 64 | |
9108bc33 CX |
65 | * The MIPS port now supports the Loongson 2K1000 processor which implements |
66 | the MIPS64r2 ISA, the Loongson-mmi ASE, Loongson-cam ASE, Loongson-ext ASE, | |
67 | Loongson-ext2 ASE and MSA ASE instructions. Add -march=gs264e option for | |
68 | Loongson 2K1000 processor. | |
69 | ||
bd782c07 CX |
70 | * The MIPS port now supports the Loongson 3A2000/3A3000 processor which |
71 | implements the MIPS64r2 ISA, the Loongson-mmi ASE, Loongson-cam ASE, | |
72 | Loongson-ext ASE and Loongson-ext2 ASE instructions. Add -march=gs464e | |
73 | option for Loongson 3A2000/3A3000 processor. | |
74 | ||
ac8cb70f CX |
75 | * The MIPS port now supports the Loongson 3A1000 processor, aka Loongson3a, |
76 | which implements the MIPS64r2 ISA, the Loongson-mmi ASE, Loongson-cam ASE | |
77 | and Loongson-ext ASE instructions. Add -march=gs464 option for Loongson | |
78 | 3A1000 processor, The -march=loongson3a is an alias of -march=gs464 for | |
79 | compatibility. | |
80 | ||
46cbf38d AB |
81 | * The size tool now has a new output format '--format=GNU' or '-G'. The |
82 | results are displayed in a similar manor to the default berkeley layout, | |
83 | except read-only data is counted in the data column, not the text column. | |
84 | Additionally the total is only included once. | |
85 | ||
719d8288 NC |
86 | Changes in 2.31: |
87 | ||
fe944acf FT |
88 | * Add support for disassembling netronome Flow Processor (NFP) firmware files. |
89 | ||
7d02540a TC |
90 | * The AArch64 port now supports showing disassembly notes which are emitted |
91 | when inconsistencies are found with the instruction that may result in the | |
92 | instruction being invalid. These can be turned on with the option -M notes | |
93 | to objdump. | |
94 | ||
95 | * The AArch64 port now emits warnings when a combination of an instruction and | |
96 | a named register could be invalid. | |
97 | ||
1869e86f AB |
98 | * Added O modifier to ar to display member offsets inside an archive |
99 | ||
9176ac5b NC |
100 | Changes in 2.30: |
101 | ||
dda8d76d NC |
102 | * Add --debug-dump=links option to readelf and --dwarf=links option to objdump |
103 | which displays the contents of any .gnu_debuglink or .gnu_debugaltlink | |
104 | sections. | |
105 | ||
106 | Add a --debug-dump=follow-links option to readelf and a --dwarf=follow-links | |
107 | option to objdump which causes indirect links into separate debug info files | |
108 | to be followed when dumping other DWARF sections. | |
109 | ||
55a09eb6 TG |
110 | Changes in 2.29: |
111 | ||
909b4e3d MR |
112 | * The MIPS port now supports microMIPS eXtended Physical Addressing (XPA) |
113 | instructions for assembly and disassembly. | |
114 | ||
f5b2fd52 MR |
115 | * The MIPS port now supports the microMIPS Release 5 ISA for assembly and |
116 | disassembly. | |
117 | ||
38bf472a MR |
118 | * The MIPS port now supports the Imagination interAptiv MR2 processor, |
119 | which implements the MIPS32r3 ISA, the MIPS16e2 ASE as well as a couple | |
120 | of implementation-specific regular MIPS and MIPS16e2 ASE instructions. | |
121 | ||
64517994 JM |
122 | * The SPARC port now supports the SPARC M8 processor, which implements the |
123 | Oracle SPARC Architecture 2017. | |
124 | ||
25499ac7 MR |
125 | * The MIPS port now supports the MIPS16e2 ASE for assembly and disassembly. |
126 | ||
a91e1603 L |
127 | * Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND and PT_GNU_MBIND_XXX. |
128 | ||
efdf7a02 | 129 | * Add support for the wasm32 ELF conversion of the WebAssembly file format. |
f96bd6c2 | 130 | |
4a14e306 AK |
131 | * Add --inlines option to objdump, which extends the --line-numbers option |
132 | so that inlined functions will display their nesting information. | |
133 | ||
9ef920e9 NC |
134 | * Add --merge-notes options to objcopy to reduce the size of notes in |
135 | a binary file by merging and deleting redundant notes. | |
136 | ||
2425a30e NC |
137 | * Add support for locating separate debug info files using the build-id |
138 | method, where the separate file has a name based upon the build-id of | |
139 | the original file. | |
140 | ||
9703a4ef TG |
141 | Changes in 2.28: |
142 | ||
08dc996f AM |
143 | * This version of binutils fixes a problem with PowerPC VLE 16A and 16D |
144 | relocations which were functionally swapped, for example, | |
145 | R_PPC_VLE_HA16A performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16D while R_PPC_VLE_HA16D | |
146 | performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16A. This could have been fixed by | |
147 | renumbering relocations, which would keep object files created by an | |
148 | older version of gas compatible with a newer ld. However, that would | |
149 | require an ABI update, affecting other assemblers and linkers that | |
150 | create and process the relocations correctly. It is recommended that | |
151 | all VLE object files be recompiled, but ld can modify the relocations | |
a05a5b64 | 152 | if --vle-reloc-fixup is passed to ld. If the new ld command-line |
08dc996f AM |
153 | option is not used, ld will ld warn on finding relocations inconsistent |
154 | with the instructions being relocated. | |
155 | ||
a05a5b64 | 156 | * The nm program has a new command-line option (--with-version-strings) |
df2c87b5 NC |
157 | which will display a symbol's version information, if any, after the |
158 | symbol's name. | |
159 | ||
37fd5ef3 CZ |
160 | * The ARC port of objdump now accepts a -M option to specify the extra |
161 | instruction class(es) that should be disassembled. | |
162 | ||
e511c9b1 AB |
163 | * The --remove-section option for objcopy and strip now accepts section |
164 | patterns starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching | |
165 | section. A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections | |
166 | matched by an earlier --remove-section pattern. | |
167 | ||
168 | * The --only-section option for objcopy now accepts section patterns | |
169 | starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching section. | |
170 | A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections matched by | |
171 | an earlier --only-section pattern. | |
172 | ||
d3e5f6c8 AB |
173 | * New --remove-relocations=SECTIONPATTERN option for objcopy and strip. |
174 | This option can be used to remove sections containing relocations. | |
175 | The SECTIONPATTERN is the section to which the relocations apply, not | |
176 | the relocation section itself. | |
177 | ||
96a84ea3 TG |
178 | Changes in 2.27: |
179 | ||
e6cc316a L |
180 | * Add a configure option, --enable-64-bit-archive, to force use of a |
181 | 64-bit format when creating an archive symbol index. | |
182 | ||
b8871f35 L |
183 | * Add --elf-stt-common= option to objcopy for ELF targets to control |
184 | whether to convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type. | |
185 | ||
7feec526 TG |
186 | Changes in 2.26: |
187 | ||
2b35fb28 RH |
188 | * Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file: |
189 | --add-symbol <name>=[<section>:]<value>[,<flags>] | |
190 | ||
886a2506 NC |
191 | * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. |
192 | ||
ea556d25 L |
193 | * Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support |
194 | --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF | |
195 | targets. | |
196 | ||
acf1419f AB |
197 | * Add --update-section option to objcopy. |
198 | ||
55edd97b EA |
199 | * Add --output-separator option to strings. |
200 | ||
c50415e2 TG |
201 | Changes in 2.25: |
202 | ||
7fac9594 NC |
203 | * Add --data option to strings to only print strings in loadable, initialized |
204 | data sections. Change the default behaviour to be --all, but add a new | |
205 | configure time option of --disable-default-strings-all to restore the old | |
206 | default behaviour. | |
207 | ||
334ac421 EA |
208 | * Add --include-all-whitespace to strings. |
209 | ||
bbad633b NC |
210 | * Add --dump-section option to objcopy. |
211 | ||
35c08157 KLC |
212 | * Add support for the Andes NDS32. |
213 | ||
58ca03a2 TG |
214 | Changes in 2.24: |
215 | ||
a05a5b64 | 216 | * Objcopy now supports wildcard characters in command-line options that take |
2e62b721 NC |
217 | section names. |
218 | ||
36591ba1 SL |
219 | * Add support for Altera Nios II. |
220 | ||
af18cb59 TG |
221 | Changes in 2.23: |
222 | ||
b9c361e0 JL |
223 | * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture. |
224 | ||
9a30f236 KT |
225 | * Add support for x64 Windows target of the delayed-load-library. |
226 | ||
99c513f6 DD |
227 | * Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture. |
228 | ||
a7142d94 TG |
229 | Changes in 2.22: |
230 | ||
4ccf1e31 JJ |
231 | * Add support for displaying the contents of .debug.macro sections. |
232 | ||
ec25acb3 NC |
233 | * Add --preprocessor-arg option to windres to specify additional options |
234 | passed to preprocessor. | |
44f45767 | 235 | |
fd2f0033 TT |
236 | * Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump. These are used by |
237 | the new Emacs mode, see dwarf-mode.el. | |
238 | ||
69f56ae1 WL |
239 | * Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures. |
240 | ||
241 | changes in 2.21: | |
44f45767 | 242 | |
b7dd81f7 NC |
243 | * Add --interleave-width option to objcopy to allowing copying a range of |
244 | bytes from the input to the output with the --interleave option. | |
245 | ||
40b36596 JM |
246 | * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family. |
247 | ||
0b6ae522 DJ |
248 | * Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using |
249 | the -u / --unwind option. | |
250 | ||
2c610e4b L |
251 | * Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table. |
252 | ||
d2420a8c NC |
253 | * A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format |
254 | binaries. | |
81c23f82 | 255 | |
bf201fdd KT |
256 | * Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by |
257 | '== <ID>' option. | |
258 | ||
a05a5b64 | 259 | * Add a new command-line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the |
be6f6493 TG |
260 | address before function name or source filename. |
261 | ||
a05a5b64 | 262 | * Add a new command-line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have |
68cdf72f TG |
263 | a more human readable output. |
264 | ||
75875724 TG |
265 | * The hppa/som targets can now be compiled on any host. |
266 | ||
81c23f82 TG |
267 | Changes in 2.20: |
268 | ||
10e636d2 DK |
269 | * Add support for delay importing to dlltool. Use the --output-delaylib <file> |
270 | switch to create a delay-import library. The resulting app will load the dll | |
271 | as soon as the first function is called. It will link to __delayLoadHelper2() | |
272 | from the static delayimp library, which will import LoadLibraryA and | |
273 | GetProcAddress from kernel32. | |
274 | ||
a05a5b64 | 275 | * Add a new command-line option, --insn-width=WIDTH, to objdump to specify |
10e636d2 DK |
276 | number of bytes to be displayed on a single line when disassembling |
277 | instructions. | |
3dcb3fcb | 278 | |
cf13d699 | 279 | * Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence |
a05a5b64 | 280 | of bytes via the --relocated-dump=<name|number> command-line option. |
cf13d699 | 281 | |
a05a5b64 | 282 | * The gprof program has been given a new command-line option: |
0e27a8f6 NC |
283 | --external-symbols-table=<filename> which reads in symbols from a specified |
284 | file. | |
6e33da12 | 285 | |
ce3c775b NC |
286 | * The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects |
287 | used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats. | |
288 | ||
43cd3ced AG |
289 | * The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format |
290 | for objcopy. | |
c067354b | 291 | |
92dd4511 | 292 | * Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base, --section-alignment, |
a05a5b64 | 293 | --stack and --subsystem command-line options to objcopy, which will |
92dd4511 L |
294 | set PE optional header. |
295 | ||
4cb93e3b TG |
296 | * Option --dwarf/-W of objdump is now as flexible as readelf --debug-dump/-w. |
297 | ||
298 | * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined | |
299 | symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries. In the | |
300 | latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED | |
301 | entry of one of the libraries already linked. | |
302 | ||
0dafdf3f | 303 | * Added --prefix=PREFIX and --prefix-strip=LEVEL switches to objdump to |
28024d9d | 304 | add absolute paths for -S. |
0dafdf3f | 305 | |
e77b97d4 KT |
306 | * Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall- |
307 | back to old import table generation with null element prefix. | |
308 | ||
3aade688 | 309 | * Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify <implib> to |
71c57c16 NC |
310 | report an error when the import library is associated with |
311 | multiple DLLs. | |
312 | ||
313 | * Added --identify <implib> option to dlltool, which determines the | |
314 | name of the DLL associated with the specified <implib>. | |
315 | ||
2f3bb96a BE |
316 | * Support for PowerPC booke64 instructions has been removed. The assembler no |
317 | longer accepts -mbooke32 or -mbooke64 and the disassembler no longer accepts | |
318 | -Mbooke32 or -Mbooke64. Instead, -mbooke and -Mbooke should be used. | |
319 | ||
6e33da12 TG |
320 | Changes in 2.19: |
321 | ||
a262ae96 NC |
322 | * Added -wL switch to dump decoded contents of .debug_line. |
323 | ||
a8da6403 NC |
324 | * Added support for "thin" archives which contain pathnames pointing to |
325 | object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a | |
326 | flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been | |
327 | added to the archive. | |
3aade688 | 328 | |
98ec6e72 NC |
329 | * Added -F switch to objdump to include file offsets in the disassembly. |
330 | ||
4145f1d5 NC |
331 | * Added -c switch to readelf to allow string dumps of archive symbol index. |
332 | ||
85f10a01 MM |
333 | * Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port. |
334 | ||
09c11c86 NC |
335 | * Added -p switch to readelf to allow string dumps of sections. |
336 | ||
876c34bf | 337 | Changes in 2.18: |
98ec6e72 | 338 | |
ad71ef64 NC |
339 | * Resolved 37 coding problems in bfd including static array overruns, null |
340 | pointer dereferences and use of a malloc buffer after it has been freed, as | |
341 | revealed by static analysis donated by Coverity, Inc. (http://scan.coverity.com). | |
1e4cf259 | 342 | |
32866df7 NC |
343 | * The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU General |
344 | Public License. | |
345 | ||
692ed3e7 NC |
346 | * A new tool "windmc" has been added for some targets. This is a message |
347 | compiler which attempts to be compatible with the MS version. | |
348 | ||
349 | * Add codepage support to the windres tool. It now supports many new | |
350 | resource types (e.g. MANIFEST, TOOLBAR, etc). The output generation | |
351 | for binary files is done now via bfd itself. The endianess problems | |
352 | for different hosts are solved. Dumps of .res files can now be | |
353 | re-compiled by windres without lossing resources or compilation errors. | |
354 | Some problems on dialog resource translations are corrected. | |
d856f2dd | 355 | |
a05a5b64 | 356 | * Add --extract-symbol command-line option to objcopy, which will |
d3e52d40 RS |
357 | strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except |
358 | for its symbol table. Files containing just symbols can be useful | |
359 | to some OSes. | |
360 | ||
32866df7 NC |
361 | Changes in 2.17: |
362 | ||
aef1f6d0 DJ |
363 | * Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER". |
364 | ||
cbf1f5df NC |
365 | * Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation |
366 | specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling | |
367 | of types. | |
368 | ||
369 | * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so | |
370 | that extra switches can be read from <file>. | |
371 | ||
4de2ad99 | 372 | * Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF |
cbf1f5df | 373 | debug sections. |
4de2ad99 | 374 | |
5477e8a0 | 375 | * Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details. |
cbf1f5df | 376 | "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated. |
5477e8a0 | 377 | |
b12fe839 AM |
378 | * powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security |
379 | conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all | |
380 | code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT | |
381 | and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt. | |
382 | ||
0c552dc1 FF |
383 | * Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information |
384 | for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function. | |
385 | ||
81fc812e L |
386 | * Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name. |
387 | ||
ec72cfe5 NC |
388 | * Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address |
389 | when disassembling VAX binaries. | |
390 | ||
7b4a0685 NC |
391 | * Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches |
392 | to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols. | |
3aade688 | 393 | |
9fbad737 | 394 | * gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for |
3aade688 | 395 | several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint. |
7b4a0685 NC |
396 | |
397 | Changes in 2.16: | |
398 | ||
b12fe839 | 399 | * Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups. |
81fc812e | 400 | |
bcf32829 JB |
401 | * objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and |
402 | --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard | |
403 | matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but | |
404 | retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations. | |
405 | ||
18bd398b NC |
406 | * readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections. This |
407 | happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered. The | |
a05a5b64 | 408 | command-line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display |
18bd398b NC |
409 | the contents of the .debug_range section. |
410 | ||
3c9458e9 NC |
411 | * nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of |
412 | symbols which the target considers to be special. By default these symbols | |
413 | are no longer displayed. Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping | |
414 | symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and | |
415 | between ARM and THUMB code. | |
416 | ||
607dea97 NC |
417 | * dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional |
418 | import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them. | |
419 | ||
420 | Changes in 2.15: | |
421 | ||
e39893d7 | 422 | * objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the |
9d317d34 | 423 | disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some |
e39893d7 FF |
424 | pseudo instruction name. I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move", |
425 | "sll" instead of "nop", etc. | |
426 | ||
5fe11841 NC |
427 | * objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on |
428 | the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them. | |
429 | ||
fb52b2f4 NC |
430 | * readelf can now parse archives. |
431 | ||
51cdc6e0 NC |
432 | * objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a |
433 | format compatible with ctags tool. | |
434 | ||
ed1653a7 NC |
435 | * objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing |
436 | those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug. The idea is that | |
437 | this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create | |
438 | a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the | |
439 | debugging info. | |
440 | ||
2593f09a NC |
441 | * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink |
442 | section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug | |
50c2245b | 443 | information for the file to be held in a separate file. |
3aade688 | 444 | |
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445 | * BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX |
446 | single-character representation. This can be checked by running nm | |
447 | with the -a switch. | |
448 | ||
43c58ae6 CD |
449 | Changes in 2.14: |
450 | ||
7c29036b NC |
451 | * Added --info switch to objcopy and strip. |
452 | ||
3b36097d SC |
453 | * Support for Vitesse IQ2000 added by Red Hat. |
454 | ||
8745eafa NC |
455 | * Added 'S' encoding to strings to allow the display of 8-bit characters. |
456 | ||
d7fb0dd2 NC |
457 | * Added --prefix-symbols=<text>, --prefix-sections=<text> and |
458 | --prefix-alloc-sections=<text> to objcopy. | |
459 | ||
84ad6ede NC |
460 | * readelf can handle the extensions to the DWARF2 spec used by the Unified |
461 | Parallel C compiler. | |
462 | ||
7d036af2 AM |
463 | * BFD no longer declares a "boolean" type, to avoid clashes with other |
464 | headers that declare the same. Users of BFD should replace boolean, | |
465 | false and true, with int, 0 and 1, or define their own boolean type. | |
466 | ||
1e4cf259 NC |
467 | * Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov. |
468 | ||
2cbb2eef NC |
469 | Changes in 2.13: |
470 | ||
471 | * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400 | |
472 | and FR500 included. | |
252b5132 | 473 | |
9a66911f NC |
474 | Changes in version 2.12: |
475 | ||
49fda6c8 HPN |
476 | * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson. |
477 | ||
15c82623 NC |
478 | * size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only). |
479 | ||
d974e256 JJ |
480 | * readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing |
481 | lines to fit into 80 columns. | |
482 | ||
d132876a NC |
483 | * strings: Add --encoding to display wide character strings. By Markus Kuhn. |
484 | ||
594ef5db NC |
485 | * objcopy: Add --rename-section to change section names. |
486 | ||
e0c60db2 NC |
487 | * readelf: Support added for DWARF 2.1 extensions. Support added for |
488 | displaying the contents of .debug.macinfo sections. | |
489 | ||
a05a5b64 | 490 | * New command-line switches added to objcopy to allow symbols to be kept as |
16b2b71c NC |
491 | global symbols, and also to specify files containing lists of such symbols. |
492 | by Honda Hiroki. | |
493 | ||
87e6d782 NC |
494 | * Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg. |
495 | ||
a05a5b64 | 496 | * New command-line switch to objcopy --alt-machine-code which creates a binary |
1ae8b3d2 AO |
497 | with an alternate machine code if one is defined in the architecture |
498 | description. Only supported for ELF targets. By Alexandre Oliva. | |
499 | ||
a05a5b64 | 500 | * New command-line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets |
09ad7db3 | 501 | the architecture of the output file to the given argument. This option only |
43a0748c NC |
502 | makes sense, if the input target is binary. Otherwise it is ignored. |
503 | By Stefan Geuken. | |
504 | ||
e135f41b NC |
505 | * Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff. |
506 | ||
09ad7db3 AM |
507 | Changes in binutils 2.11: |
508 | ||
077b8428 NC |
509 | * Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM |
510 | extenstions. | |
511 | ||
a05a5b64 | 512 | * Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command-line switch to objcopy. |
077b8428 | 513 | By Luciano Gemme. |
7d036af2 | 514 | |
156c2f8b NC |
515 | * Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander. |
516 | ||
22b36938 JE |
517 | * Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt. |
518 | ||
5bcac8a4 HPN |
519 | * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). |
520 | ||
252b5132 RH |
521 | Changes in binutils 2.10: |
522 | ||
09ad7db3 AM |
523 | * Support for 64-bit ELF on HPPA. |
524 | ||
a05a5b64 | 525 | * New command-line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the |
f1563258 | 526 | entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given |
7d036af2 | 527 | file. |
f1563258 | 528 | |
a05a5b64 | 529 | * New command-line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes |
dd92f639 NC |
530 | a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the |
531 | disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or | |
532 | raw verions. | |
7d036af2 | 533 | |
c2c40d93 ILT |
534 | * objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed |
535 | with intel syntax. | |
252b5132 RH |
536 | |
537 | * New program: readelf. This displays the contents of ELF format files, | |
538 | regardless of target machine. | |
539 | ||
540 | * objcopy now takes --change-section-lma, --change-section-vma, and | |
541 | --change-section-address options. The old --adjust-section-vma option is | |
542 | equivalent to --change-section-address. The other --adjust-* options are now | |
543 | renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work. | |
544 | ||
57938635 AM |
545 | * objcopy has a --redefine-sym option that lets you rename symbols. |
546 | ||
547 | * objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified | |
548 | sections. | |
549 | ||
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550 | * dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command. |
551 | ||
552 | * dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols, | |
553 | --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options. | |
554 | ||
555 | Changes in binutils 2.9: | |
556 | ||
557 | * Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32 | |
558 | files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT. | |
559 | ||
560 | * The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than | |
561 | the VMA of the sections. | |
562 | ||
563 | * Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table. | |
564 | ||
565 | Changes in binutils 2.8: | |
566 | ||
567 | * The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved. Use | |
568 | the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format. There are also new | |
569 | --disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler | |
570 | output. | |
571 | ||
572 | * Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets. For example, | |
573 | objdump -b i386-pc-linux. The triplets are not passed through config.sub, | |
574 | so they must be in canonical form. | |
575 | ||
576 | * Added new addr2line program. This uses the debugging information to convert | |
577 | an address into a file name and line number within a program. | |
578 | ||
579 | * Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
580 | ||
581 | * Added --weaken argument to objcopy. | |
582 | ||
583 | * objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries. | |
584 | ||
585 | * Added --adjust-vma option to objdump. | |
586 | ||
587 | * Added -C/--demangle option to objdump. | |
588 | ||
589 | * Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy. | |
590 | ||
591 | Changes in binutils 2.7: | |
592 | ||
593 | * Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure. | |
594 | ||
595 | * Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy. | |
596 | ||
597 | * Added --defined-only argument to nm. | |
598 | ||
599 | * Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
600 | ||
601 | * The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc. | |
602 | ||
603 | * Added --line-numbers option to nm. | |
604 | ||
605 | * Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump. | |
606 | ||
607 | * Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP. | |
608 | ||
609 | Changes in binutils 2.6: | |
610 | ||
611 | * Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy. | |
612 | ||
613 | * Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new | |
614 | file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit | |
615 | generating plain binary files. | |
616 | ||
617 | * Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump. | |
618 | ||
619 | * ar and ranlib now work on AIX. The tools are now built by default on AIX. | |
620 | ||
621 | Changes in binutils 2.5: | |
622 | ||
623 | * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly | |
1049f94e | 624 | listing, for a more useful listing of relocatable files. |
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625 | |
626 | * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections. | |
627 | Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections. | |
628 | ||
629 | * Added --size-sort option to nm. | |
630 | ||
631 | * strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF | |
632 | executables. | |
633 | ||
634 | Changes in binutils 2.4: | |
635 | ||
636 | * Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and | |
637 | PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor). | |
638 | ||
639 | * Support for Irix 5. | |
640 | ||
641 | * Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked | |
642 | ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly. | |
643 | ||
644 | Changes in binutils 2.3: | |
645 | ||
646 | * A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in | |
647 | ELF and COFF files. | |
648 | ||
649 | * A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into | |
650 | Novell NetWare Loadable Modules. | |
651 | ||
652 | * The strings program has been added. | |
653 | ||
654 | Changes in binutils 2.2: | |
655 | ||
656 | * The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with | |
657 | 'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for | |
658 | 'cp'. | |
659 | ||
660 | * The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded | |
661 | (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names. (Note: This | |
662 | may get moved to the gcc distribution.) | |
663 | ||
664 | * nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching | |
665 | the output from BSD nm. | |
666 | ||
667 | * ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives. | |
668 | ||
669 | * New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH. | |
670 | ||
671 | * Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb. | |
672 | ||
673 | * There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use. | |
674 | ||
675 | * There is the beginnings of a test suite. | |
676 | ||
677 | Changes in binutils 2.1: | |
678 | ||
679 | * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities | |
680 | should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. Please let us know how well this works. | |
681 | ||
682 | * ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD | |
683 | version), if there are any object files in the archive. So running ranlib is | |
684 | now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used). This is required | |
685 | for Posix.2 conformance. | |
686 | ||
687 | * The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives | |
688 | independently of the selected target format. This is to encourage people to | |
689 | switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages. | |
690 | ||
691 | * The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only | |
692 | and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options. | |
693 | ||
694 | \f | |
b3adc24a | 695 | Copyright (C) 2012-2020 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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