X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=gold%2FREADME;h=f1143cc4036fb6cd6976fb8e1ed958485614a364;hb=1e5885b72e20ef874f526e77a4946b2655e6d3c3;hp=8891d624d65bbedb26e6c084c3c996504d66b650;hpb=14359ca0dc033417af8fdf0fe5e3d68913e97197;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/gold/README b/gold/README index 8891d624d6..f1143cc403 100644 --- a/gold/README +++ b/gold/README @@ -15,10 +15,8 @@ documentation for features which gold supports. gold supports most of the features of the GNU linker for ELF targets. Notable omissions--features of the GNU linker not currently supported in gold--are: - * MEMORY regions in linker scripts * MRI compatible linker scripts * cross-reference reports (--cref) - * position independent executables (-pie) * various other minor options @@ -32,7 +30,7 @@ gold is written in C++. It is a GNU program, and therefore follows the GNU formatting standards as modified for C++. Source documents in order of decreasing precedence: http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/ - http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/C++STYLE + http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/source_code_style.html http://www.zembu.com/eng/procs/c++style.html The linker is intended to have complete support for cross-compilation, @@ -55,10 +53,17 @@ Build requirements ================== The gold source code uses templates heavily. Building it requires a -recent version of g++. g++ 4.0.3 is known to work. g++ 3.2 and g++ -3.4.3 are known to fail. +recent version of g++. g++ 4.0.3 and 4.1.3 are known to work. g++ +3.2, 3.4.3, and 4.1.2 are known to fail. The linker script parser uses features which are only in newer versions of bison. bison 2.3 is known to work. bison 1.26 is known to fail. If you are building gold from an official binutils release, the bison output should already be included. + + +Copyright (C) 2012-2016 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.