| 1 | Changes in 1.16: |
| 2 | |
| 3 | * Improve warning messages for relocations that refer to discarded sections. |
| 4 | |
| 5 | * Add --debug=plugin option for easier debugging of plugin-related problems. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | * Add -z keep_text_section_prefix option. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | * Add support for R_AARCH64_TLSLE_LDST8_TPREL_LO12, etc., relocations |
| 10 | (Aarch64 only). |
| 11 | |
| 12 | * Update configuration to enable plugins and threads automatically. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | * Add support for .note.gnu.property sections (from Linux ABI extensions). |
| 15 | |
| 16 | * Add support for Intel Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) and Shadow Stack |
| 17 | (x86-64 only). |
| 18 | |
| 19 | Changes in 1.15: |
| 20 | |
| 21 | * Add support for .MIPS.options sections (MIPS only). |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * Add support for compound relocations (MIPS only). |
| 24 | |
| 25 | * Add --emit-stub-syms, --no-tls-optimize, --tls-get-addr-optimize options |
| 26 | (PowerPC only). |
| 27 | |
| 28 | * Add -z text-unlikely-segment option. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | * Add plugin support for adding new input files (LDPT_REGISTER_NEW_INPUT_HOOK). |
| 31 | |
| 32 | Changes in 1.14: |
| 33 | |
| 34 | * Add -z bndplt option (x86-64 only) to support Intel MPX. |
| 35 | |
| 36 | * Add --orphan-handling option. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | * Add --stub-group-multi option (PowerPC only). |
| 39 | |
| 40 | * Add --target1-rel, --target1-abs, --target2 options (Arm only). |
| 41 | |
| 42 | * Add -z stack-size option. |
| 43 | |
| 44 | * Add --be8 option (Arm only). |
| 45 | |
| 46 | * Add HIDDEN support in linker scripts. |
| 47 | |
| 48 | * Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY support in linker scripts. |
| 49 | |
| 50 | Changes in 1.12: |
| 51 | |
| 52 | * Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should |
| 53 | be enabled by default. Default to yes. |
| 54 | |
| 55 | * Add support for s390, MIPS, AArch64, and TILE-Gx architectures. |
| 56 | |
| 57 | * Add support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. |
| 58 | |
| 59 | * Add support for incremental linking (--incremental). |
| 60 | |
| 61 | Changes in 1.11: |
| 62 | |
| 63 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 64 | |
| 65 | Changes in 1.10: |
| 66 | |
| 67 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 68 | |
| 69 | Changes in 1.9: |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | Changes in 1.8: |
| 74 | |
| 75 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | Changes in 1.7: |
| 78 | |
| 79 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | Changes in 1.6: |
| 82 | |
| 83 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | Changes in 1.5: |
| 86 | |
| 87 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 88 | |
| 89 | Changes in 1.4: |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [FIXME: Add major changes.] |
| 92 | |
| 93 | Changes in 1.3: |
| 94 | |
| 95 | * gold added to GNU binutils. |
| 96 | \f |
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| 98 | |
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