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+* Add support for the C-SKY processor series.
+
+Changes in 2.31:
+
* Speed up direct linking with DLLs for Cygwin and Mingw targets.
* Add a configure option --enable-separate-code to decide whether
* Add -z separate-code to generate separate code PT_LOAD segment.
-* Add "-z undefs" command line option as the inverse of the "-z defs" option.
+* Add "-z undefs" command-line option as the inverse of the "-z defs" option.
-* Add -z globalaudit command line option to force audit libraries to be run
+* Add -z globalaudit command-line option to force audit libraries to be run
for every dynamic object loaded by an executable - provided that the loader
supports this functionality.
* Add support for the RISC-V architecture.
-* The command line option --no-eh-frame-hdr can now be used in ELF based
+* The command-line option --no-eh-frame-hdr can now be used in ELF based
linkers to disable the automatic generation of .eh_frame_hdr sections.
* Add --in-implib=<infile> to the ARM linker to enable specifying a set of
* Experimental support for linker garbage collection (--gc-sections)
has been enabled for COFF and PE based targets.
-* New command line option for ELF targets to compress DWARF debug
+* New command-line option for ELF targets to compress DWARF debug
sections, --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi].
-* New command line option, --orphan-handling=[place|warn|error|discard], to
+* New command-line option, --orphan-handling=[place|warn|error|discard], to
adjust how orphan sections are handled. The default is 'place' which gives
the current behaviour, 'warn' and 'error' issue a warning or error
respectively when orphan sections are found, and 'discard' will discard all
* PE binaries now once again contain real timestamps by default. To disable
the inclusion of a timestamp in a PE binary, use the --no-insert-timestamp
- command line option.
+ command-line option.
* Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k.
-* Add support for the --build-id command line option to COFF based targets.
+* Add support for the --build-id command-line option to COFF based targets.
* x86/x86_64 pe-coff now supports the --build-id option.
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
+* 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.
direction of sorting.
* The M68K linker now supports multiple GOT generation schemes controlled via
- the --got=<type> command line option.
+ the --got=<type> command-line option.
* The ARM EABI linker will now generate stubs for function calls to symbols
that are too far away. The placement of the stubs is controlled by a new
- linker command line option: --stub-group-size=N.
+ linker command-line option: --stub-group-size=N.
Changes in 2.18:
* -l:foo now searches the library path for a filename called foo,
without converting it to libfoo.a or libfoo.so.
-* Add a new command line option '--default-script=FILE' or '-dT FILE'
+* Add a new command-line option '--default-script=FILE' or '-dT FILE'
which specifies a replacement for the built in, default linker
script.
language to permit sorting sections by section name or section
maximum alignment.
-* Added a new linker command line switch, --sort-section name|alignment,
+* Added a new linker command-line switch, --sort-section name|alignment,
to sort sections by section name or maximum alignment.
* ELF: --add-needed/--no-add-needed options to control if a DT_NEEDED tag
* Support for the sh-symbianelf target added.
-* A new linker command line switch has been added which allows the hash table
+* A new linker command-line switch has been added which allows the hash table
size to be set to a suitable prime value near to its argument. This switch
is --hash-size=<NUMBER>. Also if the switch --reduce-memory-overheads is
used, and --hash-size has not been used, then the default value will be set
* TI C54x support, by Timothy Wall.
-* Added command line switch --section-start to set the start address of any
+* Added command-line switch --section-start to set the start address of any
specified section.
* Added ability to emit full relocation information in linked executables,
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