-*- text -*-
+* 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
* 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.
* 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.
* 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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