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+* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall-
+ back to old import table generation with null element prefix.
+
+* Support for PowerPC booke64 instructions has been removed. The assembler no
+ longer accepts -mbooke32 or -mbooke64 and the disassembler no longer accepts
+ -Mbooke32 or -Mbooke64. Instead, -mbooke and -Mbooke should be used.
+
+Changes in 2.19:
+
+* Added -wL switch to dump decoded contents of .debug_line.
+
+* Added support for "thin" archives which contain pathnames pointing to
+ object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a
+ flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been
+ added to the archive.
+
+* Added -F switch to objdump to include file offsets in the disassembly.
+
+* Added -c switch to readelf to allow string dumps of archive symbol index.
+
+* Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
+
+* Added -p switch to readelf to allow string dumps of sections.
+
+Changes in 2.18:
+
+* Resolved 37 coding problems in bfd including static array overruns, null
+ pointer dereferences and use of a malloc buffer after it has been freed, as
+ revealed by static analysis donated by Coverity, Inc. (http://scan.coverity.com).
+
+* The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU General
+ Public License.
+
+* A new tool "windmc" has been added for some targets. This is a message
+ compiler which attempts to be compatible with the MS version.
+
+* Add codepage support to the windres tool. It now supports many new
+ resource types (e.g. MANIFEST, TOOLBAR, etc). The output generation
+ for binary files is done now via bfd itself. The endianess problems
+ for different hosts are solved. Dumps of .res files can now be
+ re-compiled by windres without lossing resources or compilation errors.
+ Some problems on dialog resource translations are corrected.
+
+* Add --extract-symbol command line option to objcopy, which will
+ strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except
+ for its symbol table. Files containing just symbols can be useful
+ to some OSes.
+
+Changes in 2.17:
+
+* Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER".
+
+* Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation
+ specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling
+ of types.
+
+* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so
+ that extra switches can be read from <file>.
+
+* Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF
+ debug sections.
+
+* Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details.
+ "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated.
+
+* powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security
+ conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all
+ code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT
+ and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt.
+
+* Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information
+ for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function.
+
+* Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name.
+
+* Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address
+ when disassembling VAX binaries.
+
+* Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches
+ to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols.
+
+* gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for
+ several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint.
+
+Changes in 2.16:
+
+* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups.
+
+* objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
+ --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
+ matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but
+ retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations.
+
+* readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections. This
+ happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered. The
+ command line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display
+ the contents of the .debug_range section.
+
+* nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of
+ symbols which the target considers to be special. By default these symbols
+ are no longer displayed. Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping
+ symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and
+ between ARM and THUMB code.
+
+* dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional
+ import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them.
+
+Changes in 2.15:
+
+* objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the
+ disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some
+ pseudo instruction name. I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move",
+ "sll" instead of "nop", etc.
+
+* objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on
+ the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them.
+
+* readelf can now parse archives.
+
+* objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a
+ format compatible with ctags tool.
+
+* objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing
+ those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug. The idea is that
+ this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create
+ a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the
+ debugging info.
+
+* objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink
+ section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug
+ information for the file to be held in a separate file.
+
+* BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX
+ single-character representation. This can be checked by running nm
+ with the -a switch.
+
+Changes in 2.14:
+
+* Added --info switch to objcopy and strip.
+
+* Support for Vitesse IQ2000 added by Red Hat.
+
+* Added 'S' encoding to strings to allow the display of 8-bit characters.
+
+* Added --prefix-symbols=<text>, --prefix-sections=<text> and
+ --prefix-alloc-sections=<text> to objcopy.
+
+* readelf can handle the extensions to the DWARF2 spec used by the Unified
+ Parallel C compiler.
+
+* BFD no longer declares a "boolean" type, to avoid clashes with other
+ headers that declare the same. Users of BFD should replace boolean,
+ false and true, with int, 0 and 1, or define their own boolean type.
+
+* Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov.
+
+Changes in 2.13:
+
+* Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
+ and FR500 included.
+
+Changes in version 2.12:
+
+* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
+
+* size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only).
+
+* readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing
+ lines to fit into 80 columns.
+
+* strings: Add --encoding to display wide character strings. By Markus Kuhn.
+
+* objcopy: Add --rename-section to change section names.
+
+* readelf: Support added for DWARF 2.1 extensions. Support added for
+ displaying the contents of .debug.macinfo sections.
+
+* New command line switches added to objcopy to allow symbols to be kept as
+ global symbols, and also to specify files containing lists of such symbols.
+ by Honda Hiroki.
+
+* Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg.
+
+* New command line switch to objcopy --alt-machine-code which creates a binary
+ with an alternate machine code if one is defined in the architecture
+ description. Only supported for ELF targets. By Alexandre Oliva.
+
+* New command line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets
+ the architecture of the output file to the given argument. This option only
+ makes sense, if the input target is binary. Otherwise it is ignored.
+ By Stefan Geuken.
+
+* Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.11:
+
+* Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM
+ extenstions.
+
+* Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy.
+ By Luciano Gemme.
+
+* Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander.
+
+* Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt.
+
+* Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
+
Changes in binutils 2.10:
+* Support for 64-bit ELF on HPPA.
+
* New command line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the
entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given
- file.
+ file.
* New command line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes
a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the
disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or
raw verions.
-
+
* objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed
with intel syntax.
Changes in binutils 2.5:
* Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly
- listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files.
+ listing, for a more useful listing of relocatable files.
* Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections.
Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections.
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