-*- text -*-
-Changes since 2.3:
+Changes in 2.10:
+
+Support for the Motorolla MCore 210 processor added.
+
+A new pseudo-op .intel_syntax has been implemented to allow gas to parse i386 assembly
+programs with intel syntax.
+
+New pseudo-ops .func,.endfunc to aid in debugging user-written assembler code.
+
+Full 16-bit mode support for i386.
+
+Greatly improved instruction operand checking for i386. This change will
+produce errors or warnings on incorrect assembly code that previous versions of
+gas accepted. If you get unexpected messages from code that worked with older
+versions of gas, please double check the code before reporting a bug.
+
+Weak symbol support added for COFF targets.
+
+Mitsubishi D30V support added.
+
+Texas Instruments c80 (tms320c80) support added.
+
+i960 ELF support added.
+
+Changes in 2.9:
+
+Texas Instruments c30 (tms320c30) support added.
+
+The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs
+and gcc 2.8. The new --traditional-format option disables this optimization.
+
+Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information.
+
+The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a
+listing.
+
+Added -MD option to print dependencies.
+
+Changes in 2.8:
+
+BeOS support added.
+
+MIPS16 support added.
+
+Motorola ColdFire 5200 support added (configure for m68k and use -m5200).
+
+Alpha/VMS support added.
+
+m68k options --base-size-default-16, --base-size-default-32,
+--disp-size-default-16, and --disp-size-default-32 added.
+
+The alignment directives now take an optional third argument, which is the
+maximum number of bytes to skip. If doing the alignment would require skipping
+more than the given number of bytes, the alignment is not done at all.
+
+The ELF assembler has a new pseudo-op, .symver, used for symbol versioning.
+
+The -a option takes a new suboption, c (e.g., -alc), to skip false conditionals
+in listings.
+
+Added new pseudo-op, .equiv; it's like .equ, except that it is an error if the
+symbol is already defined.
+
+Changes in 2.7:
+
+The PowerPC assembler now allows the use of symbolic register names (r0, etc.)
+if -mregnames is used. Symbolic names preceded by a '%' (%r0, etc.) can be
+used any time. PowerPC 860 move to/from SPR instructions have been added.
+
+Alpha Linux (ELF) support added.
+
+PowerPC ELF support added.
+
+m68k Linux (ELF) support added.
+
+i960 Hx/Jx support added.
+
+i386/PowerPC gnu-win32 support added.
+
+SCO ELF support added. For OpenServer 5 targets (i386-unknown-sco3.2v5) the
+default is to build COFF-only support. To get a set of tools that generate ELF
+(they'll understand both COFF and ELF), you must configure with
+target=i386-unknown-sco3.2v5elf.
+
+m88k-motorola-sysv3* support added.
+
+Changes in 2.6:
+
+Gas now directly supports macros, without requiring GASP.
+
+Gas now has an MRI assembler compatibility mode. Use -M or --mri to select MRI
+mode. The pseudo-op ``.mri 1'' will switch into the MRI mode until the ``.mri
+0'' is seen; this can be convenient for inline assembler code.
+
+Added --defsym SYM=VALUE option.
+
+Added -mips4 support to MIPS assembler.
+
+Added PIC support to Solaris and SPARC SunOS 4 assembler.
+
+Changes in 2.4:
Converted this directory to use an autoconf-generated configure script.
Usage message is available with "--help".
+The GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp) is included. (Actually, it was in 2.3
+also, but didn't get into the NEWS file.)
+
Weak symbol support for a.out.
A bug in the listing code which could cause an infinite loop has been fixed.
Bugs in listings when generating a COFF object file have also been fixed.
Initial i386-svr4 PIC implementation from Eric Youngdale, based on code by Paul
-Kranenburg. This code was oriented towards gas version 1.xx; in updating some
-aspects of it for version 2, I broke it.
+Kranenburg.
Improved Alpha support. Immediate constants can have a much larger range now.
-Support for the 21164 has been added.
+Support for the 21164 has been contributed by Digital.
Updated ns32k (pc532-mach, netbsd532) support from Ian Dall.
-Changes since 2.2:
+Changes in 2.3:
Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie and Ken Raeburn.
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-Changes since 2.1:
+Changes in 2.2:
RS/6000 AIX and MIPS SGI Irix 5 support has been added.
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-Changes for 2.1:
+Changes in 2.1:
Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have been
incorporated, but not well tested yet.
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-Changes for 2.0:
+Changes in 2.0:
Mostly bug fixes.
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-Changes for 1.94:
+Changes in 1.94:
BFD merge is partly done. Adventurous souls may try giving configure the
"--with-bfd-assembler" option. Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out format
----------------------------------------------------------------
-Changes for 1.93.01:
+Changes in 1.93.01:
For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851.
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