X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=binutils%2FNEWS;h=88b048995a8fe4fac320fd54cda4172c0c9a5450;hb=660df28acfa1b58c978d65d9cb26d37023f791ce;hp=5413321b4baf0d433b69752223d0c8e6a0d060fd;hpb=24841daa74f092f7c5639ee8f1fb303c7694dee7;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index 5413321b4b..88b048995a 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,41 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add --output option to the "ar" program. This option can be used to specify + the output directory when extracting members from an archive. + +* Add --keep-section option to objcopy and strip. This option keeps the + specified section from being removed. + +Changes in 2.33: + +* Add --source-comment[=] option to objdump which if present, + provides a prefix to source code lines displayed in a disassembly. + +* Add --set-section-alignment = option to objcopy to allow + the changing of section alignments. + +* Add --verilog-data-width option to objcopy for verilog targets to control + width of data elements in verilog hex format. + +* Add support for the Armv8.1-M Mainline and M-profile Vector Extension (MVE) + instructions. + * The separate debug info file options of readelf (--debug-dump=links and --debug-dump=follow) and objdump (--dwarf=links and --dwarf=follow-links) will now display and/or follow multiple links if more than one are present in a file. (This usually happens when gcc's -gsplit-dwarf option is used). + In addition objdump's --dwarf=follow-links now also affects its other + display options, so that for example, when combined with --syms it will + cause the symbol tables in any linked debug info files to also be + displayed. In addition when combined with --disassemble the --dwarf= + follow-links option will ensure that any symbol tables in the linked + files are read and used when disassembling code in the main file. + + * Add support for dumping types encoded in the Compact Type Format + to objdump and readelf. + Changes in 2.32: * The addr2line, c++filt, nm and objdump tools now have a limit on the