2011-09-22 Andreas Tobler <andreast@fgznet.ch>

[deliverable/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / NEWS

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+* Add support for displaying the contents of .debug.macro sections.
+
+* Add --preprocessor-arg option to windres to specify additional options
+  passed to preprocessor.
+
+* Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump.  These are used by
+  the new Emacs mode, see dwarf-mode.el.
+
+Changes in 2.21:
+
+* Add --interleave-width option to objcopy to allowing copying a range of
+  bytes from the input to the output with the --interleave option.
+
+* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.
+
+* Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using
+  the -u / --unwind option.
+
+* Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table.
+
+* A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format
+  binaries.
+
+* Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by
+  '== <ID>' option.
+
+* Add a new command line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the
+  address before function name or source filename.
+
+* Add a new command line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have
+  a more human readable output.
+
+* The hppa/som targets can now be compiled on any host.
+
+Changes in 2.20:
+
+* Add support for delay importing to dlltool.  Use the --output-delaylib <file>
+  switch to create a delay-import library.  The resulting app will load the dll
+  as soon as the first function is called.  It will link to __delayLoadHelper2()
+  from the static delayimp library, which will import LoadLibraryA and
+  GetProcAddress from kernel32.
+
+* Add a new command line option, --insn-width=WIDTH, to objdump to specify
+  number of bytes to be displayed on a single line when disassembling
+  instructions.
+
+* Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence
+  of bytes via the --relocated-dump=<name|number> command line option.
+
+* The gprof program has been given a new command line option:
+  --external-symbols-table=<filename> which reads in symbols from a specified
+  file.
+
+* The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects
+  used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats.
+
+* The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format
+  for objcopy.
+
+* Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base, --section-alignment,
+  --stack and --subsystem command line options to objcopy, which will
+  set PE optional header.
+
+* Option --dwarf/-W of objdump is now as flexible as readelf --debug-dump/-w.
+
+* --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
+  symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries.  In the
+  latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED
+  entry of one of the libraries already linked.
+
 * Added --prefix=PREFIX and --prefix-strip=LEVEL switches to objdump to
   add absolute paths for -S.