Fic PR17107 - ignore contents of word subject to R_V850_32 relocation.

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@@ -1,11 +1,49 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
-Changes since version 2.7:
+Changes in version 2.10:
+
+* Added garbage collection of unused sections, enabled by --gc-sections. 
+  It does require a bit of backend support; currently implemented are
+  ppc-elf, mips-elf, and mn10300-elf.  Others will ignore the option.
+
+* Added SORT to the linker script language to permit sorting sections by file
+  name or section name.
+
+* Added EXTERN to the linker script language as an equivalent to the -u
+  command-line option.
+
+* The -e option now accepts a number as well as a symbol name.
+
+Changes in version 2.9:
+
+* Added SQUAD to the linker script language.
+
+* New option --no-warn-mismatch.
+
+* The MEMORY command now parses the attributes to determine where sections that
+  are not placed in a specific memory region are placed.
+
+Changes in version 2.8:
 
 * Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section
   names.
 
-Changes since version 2.6:
+* The linker now supports symbol versions in ELF.
+
+* The NOCROSSREFS command was added to the linker script language.
+
+* The LOADADDR expression was added to the linker script language.
+
+* MAX and MIN functions were added to the linker script language.
+
+* The OVERLAY construct was added to the linker script language.
+
+* New option --warn-section-align to warn when the address of an output section
+  changes due to alignment of an input section.
+
+* New options --filter/-F and --auxiliary/-f.
+
+Changes in version 2.7:
 
 * New option --cref to print out a cross reference table.
 
@@ -20,7 +58,7 @@ Changes since version 2.6:
   the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types.  This reduces the amount of debugging
   information generated.
 
-Changes since version 2.5:
+Changes in version 2.6:
 
 * When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true
 of most ELF section names), the linker will automatically define symbols
@@ -53,7 +91,7 @@ enums, so that even if the same type is defined in multiple input files it will
 only be defined once in the output file.  The --traditional-format switch will
 prevent this optimization.
 
-Changes since version 2.4:
+Changes in version 2.5:
 
 * The linker now supports linking against SunOS shared libraries.  It still can
 not link SunOS PIC (Position Independent Code) files, so it can not be used to
@@ -92,7 +130,7 @@ far, this function has been written for the i386, m68k, a29k and SH targets.
 * The -V flag was made a synonym for -v, for SVR4 compatibility.  The old -V
 behaviour is available via --verbose.
 
-Changes since version 2.3:
+Changes in version 2.4:
 
 * New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor.  For a.out and ecoff
   formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time
@@ -116,7 +154,7 @@ Changes since version 2.3:
   forgot to note it.)  Some of their C library routines don't work when
   statically linked, and the GNU linker doesn't support dynamic linking yet.
 
-Changes since version 2.2:
+Changes in version 2.3:
 
 * Weak symbols are now supported.
 
@@ -125,14 +163,14 @@ Changes since version 2.2:
 
 * Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
 
-Changes since version 2.1:
+Changes in version 2.2:
 
 * The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string
   table size.  The effect of this is that files linked from many input
   files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical
   static symbols) should be much smaller.
 
-Changes since version 2.0:
+Changes in version 2.1:
 
 * The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.