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+* 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.
+
+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.
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