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+* 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.
+
+* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall-
+ back to old import table generation with null element prefix.
+
+* Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify <implib> to
+ report an error when the import library is associated with
+ multiple DLLs.
+
+* Added --identify <implib> option to dlltool, which determines the
+ name of the DLL associated with the specified <implib>.
+
+* 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 "--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.
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