ld/NEWS

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   3 Changes since version 2.3:
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   5 * New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor.  For a.out and ecoff
   6   formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time
   7   and memory used while linking; slightly poorer performance than
   8   before for formats not converted yet.
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  10 * Irix 5 support.
  11
  12 * Command-line parsing is no longer done with flex.  This means
  13   oddball characters in filenames won't get treated as argument
  14   separators.
  15
  16 * HP-PA ELF support, by Jeff Law.  (No SOM support yet.)
  17
  18 * PowerPC and RS/6000 support, by Ian Taylor.
  19
  20 * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie.
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  22 Changes since version 2.2:
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  24 * Weak symbols are now supported.
  25
  26 * ELF support has been added.  The linker has been bootstrapped on
  27   UnixWare and Solaris.
  28
  29 * Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
  30
  31 Changes since version 2.1:
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  33 * The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string
  34   table size.  The effect of this is that files linked from many input
  35   files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical
  36   static symbols) should be much smaller.
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  38 Changes since version 2.0:
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  40 * The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.
  41
  42 * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the
  43   other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.
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