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1 | -*- text -*- |
2 | ||
43a0748c NC |
3 | * New command line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets |
4 | the archiceture of the output file to the given argument. This option only | |
5 | makes sense, if the input target is binary. Otherwise it is ignored. | |
6 | By Stefan Geuken. | |
7 | ||
e135f41b NC |
8 | * Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff. |
9 | ||
077b8428 NC |
10 | * Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM |
11 | extenstions. | |
12 | ||
13 | * Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy. | |
14 | By Luciano Gemme. | |
420496c1 | 15 | |
156c2f8b NC |
16 | * Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander. |
17 | ||
22b36938 JE |
18 | * Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt. |
19 | ||
5bcac8a4 HPN |
20 | * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). |
21 | ||
252b5132 RH |
22 | Changes in binutils 2.10: |
23 | ||
f1563258 TW |
24 | * New command line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the |
25 | entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given | |
26 | file. | |
27 | ||
dd92f639 NC |
28 | * New command line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes |
29 | a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the | |
30 | disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or | |
31 | raw verions. | |
32 | ||
c2c40d93 ILT |
33 | * objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed |
34 | with intel syntax. | |
252b5132 RH |
35 | |
36 | * New program: readelf. This displays the contents of ELF format files, | |
37 | regardless of target machine. | |
38 | ||
39 | * objcopy now takes --change-section-lma, --change-section-vma, and | |
40 | --change-section-address options. The old --adjust-section-vma option is | |
41 | equivalent to --change-section-address. The other --adjust-* options are now | |
42 | renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work. | |
43 | ||
57938635 AM |
44 | * objcopy has a --redefine-sym option that lets you rename symbols. |
45 | ||
46 | * objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified | |
47 | sections. | |
48 | ||
252b5132 RH |
49 | * dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command. |
50 | ||
51 | * dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols, | |
52 | --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options. | |
53 | ||
54 | Changes in binutils 2.9: | |
55 | ||
56 | * Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32 | |
57 | files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT. | |
58 | ||
59 | * The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than | |
60 | the VMA of the sections. | |
61 | ||
62 | * Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table. | |
63 | ||
64 | Changes in binutils 2.8: | |
65 | ||
66 | * The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved. Use | |
67 | the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format. There are also new | |
68 | --disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler | |
69 | output. | |
70 | ||
71 | * Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets. For example, | |
72 | objdump -b i386-pc-linux. The triplets are not passed through config.sub, | |
73 | so they must be in canonical form. | |
74 | ||
75 | * Added new addr2line program. This uses the debugging information to convert | |
76 | an address into a file name and line number within a program. | |
77 | ||
78 | * Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
79 | ||
80 | * Added --weaken argument to objcopy. | |
81 | ||
82 | * objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries. | |
83 | ||
84 | * Added --adjust-vma option to objdump. | |
85 | ||
86 | * Added -C/--demangle option to objdump. | |
87 | ||
88 | * Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy. | |
89 | ||
90 | Changes in binutils 2.7: | |
91 | ||
92 | * Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure. | |
93 | ||
94 | * Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy. | |
95 | ||
96 | * Added --defined-only argument to nm. | |
97 | ||
98 | * Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
99 | ||
100 | * The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc. | |
101 | ||
102 | * Added --line-numbers option to nm. | |
103 | ||
104 | * Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump. | |
105 | ||
106 | * Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP. | |
107 | ||
108 | Changes in binutils 2.6: | |
109 | ||
110 | * Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy. | |
111 | ||
112 | * Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new | |
113 | file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit | |
114 | generating plain binary files. | |
115 | ||
116 | * Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump. | |
117 | ||
118 | * ar and ranlib now work on AIX. The tools are now built by default on AIX. | |
119 | ||
120 | Changes in binutils 2.5: | |
121 | ||
122 | * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly | |
123 | listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files. | |
124 | ||
125 | * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections. | |
126 | Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections. | |
127 | ||
128 | * Added --size-sort option to nm. | |
129 | ||
130 | * strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF | |
131 | executables. | |
132 | ||
133 | Changes in binutils 2.4: | |
134 | ||
135 | * Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and | |
136 | PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor). | |
137 | ||
138 | * Support for Irix 5. | |
139 | ||
140 | * Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked | |
141 | ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly. | |
142 | ||
143 | Changes in binutils 2.3: | |
144 | ||
145 | * A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in | |
146 | ELF and COFF files. | |
147 | ||
148 | * A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into | |
149 | Novell NetWare Loadable Modules. | |
150 | ||
151 | * The strings program has been added. | |
152 | ||
153 | Changes in binutils 2.2: | |
154 | ||
155 | * The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with | |
156 | 'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for | |
157 | 'cp'. | |
158 | ||
159 | * The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded | |
160 | (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names. (Note: This | |
161 | may get moved to the gcc distribution.) | |
162 | ||
163 | * nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching | |
164 | the output from BSD nm. | |
165 | ||
166 | * ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives. | |
167 | ||
168 | * New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH. | |
169 | ||
170 | * Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb. | |
171 | ||
172 | * There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use. | |
173 | ||
174 | * There is the beginnings of a test suite. | |
175 | ||
176 | Changes in binutils 2.1: | |
177 | ||
178 | * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities | |
179 | should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. Please let us know how well this works. | |
180 | ||
181 | * ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD | |
182 | version), if there are any object files in the archive. So running ranlib is | |
183 | now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used). This is required | |
184 | for Posix.2 conformance. | |
185 | ||
186 | * The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives | |
187 | independently of the selected target format. This is to encourage people to | |
188 | switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages. | |
189 | ||
190 | * The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only | |
191 | and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options. | |
192 | ||
193 | \f | |
194 | Local variables: | |
195 | fill-column: 79 | |
196 | End: |