-*- text -*-
-* For GNU/Linux systems the linker will now forego processing any relocations
- made against symbols of the STT_IFUNC type and instead emit them into
+
+* Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k.
+
+* Add support for the --build-id command line option to COFF based targets.
+
+* x86/x86_64 pe-coff now supports the --build-id option.
+
+* Add support for the Andes NDS32.
+
+Changes in 2.24:
+
+* Add LOG2CEIL() builtin function to the linker script language
+
+* Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor.
+
+* Add support for Altera Nios II.
+
+* Add support for the V850E3V5 architecture.
+
+* Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor.
+
+* --enable-new-dtags no longer generates old dtags in addition to new dtags.
+
+* Remove linker support for MIPS ECOFF targets.
+
+* Add ALIGN_WITH_INPUT to the linker script language to force the alignment of
+ an output section to use the maximum alignment of all its input sections.
+
+Changes in 2.23:
+
+* Enable compressed debug section feature for x86/x86_64 pe-coff.
+
+* Add support for the 64-bit ARM architecture: AArch64.
+
+* Added SORT_NONE to the linker script language to disable section sorting.
+
+* Add a linker-provided symbol when producing ELF output, '__ehdr_start'
+ to point to the ELF file header (and nearby program headers) in the
+ program's memory image.
+
+* Add support for S12X processor.
+
+* Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture.
+
+* Add support for the Freescale XGATE architecture.
+
+* Add option -f FILE on AIX (for response file).
+
+* Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture.
+
+* Add support for the Adapteva EPIPHANY architecture.
+
+Changes in 2.22:
+
+* --copy-dt-needed-entries is no longer enabled by default. Instead
+ --no-copy-dt-needed-entries is the default.
+
+* INPUT_SECTION_FLAGS has been added to the linker script language
+ to allow selection of input sections by section header section flags.
+
+* Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures.
+
+* Added SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY to the linker script language to permit
+ sorting sections by numerical value of the GCC init_priority attribute
+ encoded in the section name.
+
+Changes in 2.21:
+
+* Linker script expression evaluation is somewhat more sane. This may
+ break scripts that depend on quirks of the old expression evaluation.
+
+* Turn off underscoring for x86_64 PE+-COFF targets. For old behavior the
+ option --enable-leading-mingw64-underscores can be used on configure of
+ bfd.
+
+* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.
+
+* --add-needed renamed to --copy-dt-needed-entries in order to avoid confusion
+ with --as-needed option.
+
+* Extend .def file syntax by '== <ID>' for imports and exports. This allows
+ to alias the import/export table name written in PE image.
+
+* Add --exclude-all-symbols option to PE based linkers. This prevents all
+ symbols from automatically being exported.
+
+* Add support for the Renesas RX processor.
+
+* Add support for alpha-vms target.
+
+Changes in 2.20:
+
+* GNU/Linux targets now support the STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbol binding. This is a
+ GNU extension to the standard set of ELF symbol bindings. The binding will
+ be passed on to the dynamic linker which will make sure that in the entire
+ process there is just one symbol with the given name and type in use.
+
+* PE targets now support a GNU extension to allow the alignment of common
+ common symbols to be specified. This support uses custom options in
+ the .drectve section, which will be disregarded by the native tools.
+
+* PE targets now add primitive support for ELF version scripts; symbols
+ are not versioned, but the local and global symbol visibility directives
+ are respected when filtering symbols in auto-export mode.
+
+* New option --no-export-dynamic to undo the effect of the -E and
+ --export-dynamic options.
+
+* ELF: --warn-alternate-em option to warn if an object has alternate
+ ELF machine code.
+
+* New script function REGION_ALIAS to add alias names to memory regions.
+
+* PE targets no longer make use of the long section names PE extension to
+ the COFF format when generating executable images, by default. The old
+ (slightly non-conformant) behaviour can still be invoked by using the
+ new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option. It is also enabled
+ automatically in the presence of un-stripped debug information, as GDB
+ needs to be able to find the debug info sections by their full names.
+
+* For GNU/Linux systems the linker will now avoid processing any relocations
+ made against symbols of the STT_GNU_IFUNC type and instead emit them into
the resulting binary for processing by the loader.
-* Add CR16 ELF --embedded-relocs (used to embedded relocations into binaries
+* --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.
+
+* Add a new command line option, -Ttext-segment ADDR, for ELF targets
+ to set the address of the first byte of the text segment.
+
+* Add support for Sunplus score architecture.
+
+* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to ld for PE targets to
+ allow fallback to old import table generation with null element prefix.
+
+* Windows PE systems now support a new --exclude-modules-for-implib option,
+ allowing users to partition object files and archive members between a DLL
+ and its associated import library as they are generated during linking.
+
+* Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture.
+
+* Add CR16 ELF --embedded-relocs (used to embedded relocations into binaries
for Embedded-PIC code) option.
* Add to the PE/PE+ targets the support of two different kinds of
other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.
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+Copyright (C) 2012-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
+are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
+notice and this notice are preserved.
+
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