X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ld%2FNEWS;h=244589641880ef505083a58dad8b752ba7edf37f;hb=71917808c3490b4d4df9c6e848e3c5d75f5278d2;hp=b88da5cbb095f79841f1eb4aa8e272dacfe656a4;hpb=4c10bbaa0912742322f10d9d5bb630ba4e15dfa7;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS index b88da5cbb0..2445896418 100644 --- a/ld/NEWS +++ b/ld/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,80 @@ -*- text -*- +* 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. + +* Tighten linker script grammar around file name specifiers to prevent the use + of SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT and SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY on filenames. These would + previously be accepted but had no effect. + +* The EXCLUDE_FILE directive can now be placed within any SORT_* directive + within input section lists. + +Changes in 2.29: + +* Support for -z shstk in the x86 ELF linker to generate + GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_SHSTK in ELF GNU program properties. + +* Add support for GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_SHSTK in ELF GNU program + properties in the x86 ELF linker. + +* Add support for GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_IBT in ELF GNU program + properties in the x86 ELF linker. + +* Support for -z ibtplt in the x86 ELF linker to generate IBT-enabled + PLT. + +* Support for -z ibt in the x86 ELF linker to generate IBT-enabled + PLT as well as GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_IBT in ELF GNU program + properties. + +* Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND and PT_GNU_MBIND_XXX. + +* Add support for ELF GNU program properties. + +* Add support for the Texas Instruments PRU processor. + +* When configuring for arc*-*-linux* targets the default linker emulation will + change if --with-cpu=nps400 is used at configure time. + +* Improve assignment of LMAs to orphan sections in some edge cases where a + mixture of both AT>LMA_REGION and AT(LMA) are used. + +* Orphan sections placed after an empty section that has an AT(LMA) will now + take an load memory address starting from LMA. + +* Section groups can now be resolved (the group deleted and the group members + placed like normal sections) at partial link time either using the new linker + option --force-group-allocation or by placing FORCE_GROUP_ALLOCATION into the + linker script. + +Changes in 2.28: + +* The EXCLUDE_FILE linker script construct can now be applied outside of the + section list in order for the exclusions to apply over all input sections in + the list. + +* Add support for the RISC-V architecture. + +* 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= to the ARM linker to enable specifying a set of + Secure Gateway veneers that must exist in the output import library specified + by --out-implib= and the address they must have. As such, + --in-implib is only supported in combination with --cmse-implib. + +* Extended the --out-implib= option, previously restricted to x86 PE + targets, to any ELF based target. This allows the generation of an import + library for an ELF executable, which can then be used by another application + to link against the executable. + +Changes in 2.27: + +* Add a configure option --enable-relro to decide whether -z relro should + be enabled in ELF linker by default. Default to yes for all Linux + targets except FRV, HPPA, IA64 and MIPS. Note that -z relro can increase + disk and memory size. * Support for -z noreloc-overflow in the x86-64 ELF linker to disable relocation overflow check. @@ -9,6 +85,11 @@ * Support for -z nodynamic-undefined-weak in the x86 ELF linker, which avoids dynamic relocations against undefined weak symbols in executable. +* The NOCROSSREFSTO command was added to the linker script language. + +* Add --no-apply-dynamic-relocs to the AArch64 linker to do not apply link-time + values for dynamic relocations. + Changes in 2.26: * Add --fix-stm32l4xx-629360 to the ARM linker to enable a link-time @@ -631,7 +712,7 @@ Changes in version 2.1: other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. -Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2012-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification, are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright