X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=ld%2FNEWS;h=75f8100f87afd72bbda0b2d37b2e5c5dc84c6be4;hb=54693cf5f11bf292ae308604caf6e866dbb03e6f;hp=653e8d97a3b9a0f5f9e3310e892e8840ae8eecd3;hpb=5bf135a788d468003cb2502d0a2239fd92d1ac25;p=deliverable%2Fbinutils-gdb.git diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS index 653e8d97a3..75f8100f87 100644 --- a/ld/NEWS +++ b/ld/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,170 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add a configure option --enable-separate-code to decide whether + -z separate-code should be enabled in ELF linker by default. Default + to yes for Linux/x86 targets. Note that -z separate-code can increase + disk and memory size. + +Changes in 2.30: + +* 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 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. + +* Add -z common/-z nocommon options for ELF targets to control whether to + convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type during a relocatable link. + +* 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 + workaround for a bug in the bus matrix / memory controller for some of + the STM32 Cortex-M4 based products (STM32L4xx) + +* Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,ld} to + decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default. + +* Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. + +* 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 + sections, --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]. + +* 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 + orphan sections. + +* Add support for LLVM plugin. + +* Add --print-memory-usage option to report memory blocks usage. + +* Add --require-defined option, it's like --undefined except the new symbol + must be defined by the end of the link. + +Changes in 2.25: + +* 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. + +* Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k. + +* Add support for the --build-id command line option to COFF based targets. + +* x86/x86_64 pe-coff now supports the --build-id option. + +* Add support for the Andes NDS32. + +Changes in 2.24: + +* Add LOG2CEIL() builtin function to the linker script language + +* Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor. + +* Add support for Altera Nios II. + +* Add support for the V850E3V5 architecture. + +* Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor. + +* --enable-new-dtags no longer generates old dtags in addition to new dtags. + +* Remove linker support for MIPS ECOFF targets. + +* Add ALIGN_WITH_INPUT to the linker script language to force the alignment of + an output section to use the maximum alignment of all its input sections. + Changes in 2.23: * Enable compressed debug section feature for x86/x86_64 pe-coff. @@ -559,7 +724,7 @@ Changes in version 2.1: other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. -Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 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