Slackware 13.1slackware-13.1

Wed May 19 08:58:23 UTC 2010
Slackware 13.1 x86_64 stable is released!
Lots of thanks are due -- see the RELEASE_NOTES and the rest of the
ChangeLog for credits.  The ISOs are on their way to replication,
a 6 CD-ROM 32-bit set and a dual-sided 32-bit/64-bit x86/x86_64 DVD.
We are taking pre-orders now at store.slackware.com, and offering
a discount if you sign up for a subscription.  Consider picking up
a copy to help support the project.  Thanks again to the Slackware
community for testing, contributing, and generally holding us to a
high level of quality.  :-)
Enjoy!

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+This is the beta release of binutils 2.20.51.0.8 for Linux, which is
+based on binutils 2010 0412 in CVS on sourceware.org plus various
+changes. It is purely for Linux.
+
+All relevant patches in patches have been applied to the source tree.
+You can take a look at patches/README to see what have been applied and
+in what order they have been applied.
+
+Starting from the 2.20.51.0.4 release, no diffs against the previous
+release will be provided.
+
+You can enable both gold and bfd ld with --enable-gold=both.  Gold will
+be installed as ld.gold and bfd ld will be installed as ld.bfd.  By
+default, ld.gold will be installed as ld.  You can use the configure
+option, --enable-gold=both/bfd to choose bfd ld as the default linker,
+ld.  IA-32 binary and X64_64 binary tar balls are configured with
+--enable-gold=both/bfd --enable-plugins --enable-threads.
+
+Starting from the 2.18.50.0.4 release, the x86 assembler no longer
+accepts
+
+	fnstsw %eax
+
+fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax and the upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
+Please use
+
+	fnstsw %ax
+
+Starting from the 2.17.50.0.4 release, the default output section LMA
+(load memory address) has changed for allocatable sections from being
+equal to VMA (virtual memory address), to keeping the difference between
+LMA and VMA the same as the previous output section in the same region.
+
+For
+
+.data.init_task : { *(.data.init_task) }
+
+LMA of .data.init_task section is equal to its VMA with the old linker.
+With the new linker, it depends on the previous output section. You
+can use
+
+.data.init_task : AT (ADDR(.data.init_task)) { *(.data.init_task) }
+
+to ensure that LMA of .data.init_task section is always equal to its
+VMA. The linker script in the older 2.6 x86-64 kernel depends on the
+old behavior.  You can add AT (ADDR(section)) to force LMA of
+.data.init_task section equal to its VMA. It will work with both old
+and new linkers. The x86-64 kernel linker script in kernel 2.6.13 and
+above is OK.
+
+The new x86_64 assembler no longer accepts
+
+	monitor %eax,%ecx,%edx
+
+You should use
+
+	monitor %rax,%ecx,%edx
+
+or
+	monitor
+
+which works with both old and new x86_64 assemblers. They should
+generate the same opcode.
+
+The new i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving
+between a segment register and a 32bit memory location, i.e.,
+
+	movl (%eax),%ds
+	movl %ds,(%eax)
+
+To generate instructions for moving between a segment register and a
+16bit memory location without the 16bit operand size prefix, 0x66,
+
+	mov (%eax),%ds
+	mov %ds,(%eax)
+
+should be used. It will work with both new and old assemblers. The
+assembler starting from 2.16.90.0.1 will also support
+
+	movw (%eax),%ds
+	movw %ds,(%eax)
+
+without the 0x66 prefix. Patches for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels are
+available at
+
+http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch
+http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch
+
+The ia64 assembler is now defaulted to tune for Itanium 2 processors.
+To build a kernel for Itanium 1 processors, you will need to add
+
+ifeq ($(CONFIG_ITANIUM),y)
+	CFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1
+	AFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1
+endif
+
+to arch/ia64/Makefile in your kernel source tree.
+
+Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.20.51.0.8 to
+hjl.tools@gmail.com
+
+and
+
+http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/
+
+Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.7:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2010 0412.
+2. Don't bind unique symbol locally. PR 11434.
+3. Add DWARF 4 support to linker and readelf.
+4. Fix --no-export-dynamic for PIE. PR 11413.
+5. Speed up x86 assembler.
+6. Use memmove instead of memcpy to copy overlap memory in assembler.
+PR 11456.
+7. Improve gold.
+8. Improve VMS support.
+9. Improve PE support.
+10. Add TI C6X support.
+11. Improve arm support.
+12. Improve cris support.
+13. Improve ppc support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.6:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2010 0318.
+2. Don't set ELFOSABI_LINUX for undefined STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols.
+3. Improve x86 assembler error messages.
+4. Support vpermilp[ds] for x86.
+5. Fix strip for group sections.
+6. Fix objcopy for PE PIE.  PR 11396.
+7. Avoid 32bit overflow in linker.
+8. Correct backslash quote logic in assembler.  PR 11356.
+9. Improve linker --section-start support.  PR 11304.
+10. Properly update LMA.  PR 11219.
+11. Don't combine .init_array/.fini_array sections for relocatable link.
+12. Add Solaris Sparc/x86 linker support.
+13. Support dumping .ARM.exidx/.ARM.extab.
+14. Add STT_GNU_IFUNC support for Sparc.
+15. Improve gold.
+16. Improve arm support.
+17. Improve avr support.
+18. Improve mips support.
+19. Improve ppc support.
+20. Improve xtensa support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.5:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2010 0205.
+2. Support x86 XSAVE extended state core dump.
+3. Add an option, -mavxscalar=, to x86 assembler to encoding AVX
+scalar instructions with VL=256 and update x86 disassembler.
+4. Add xsave64/xrstor64 to x86 assembler/disassembler.
+5. Add all the possible aliases for VPCOM* insns to x86 assembler.
+5. Fix --gc-sections to detect unresolved symbol in DSO.  PR 11218.
+6. Support number of ELF program segments > 64K.
+7. Support BSD4.4 extended archive write.
+8. Report error on bad section name with "objdump -j". PR 11225.
+9. Linker now checks if all files are present and indicates those missing.
+PR 4437.
+10. Allow adding section from empy file with objcopy.
+11. Update C++ demangler to support vector.
+12. Improve gold.
+13. Improve arm support.
+14. Improve hppa support.
+15. Improve ppc support.
+16. Improve s390 support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.4:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2010 0115.
+2. Optimize x86 assembler/disassembler.
+3. Add a new program, elfedit, to edit ELF files.  PR 11131.
+4. Add --dyn-syms to readelf.  PR 11146.
+5. Remove "Warning: " from objcopy error message.  PR 11130.
+6. Fix linker --gc-sections with undefined __start_XXX/__stop_XXX symbols.
+PR 11133.
+7. Fix linker --gc-sections with SHT_NOTE section.  PR 11143.
+8. Fix a c++filt bug.  PR 11137.
+9. Fix assembler listing.  PR 11122.
+10. Improve gold. Change --enable-gold to --enable-gold=[both[/{gold,bfd}]].
+11. Improve arm support.
+12. Improve mips support.
+13. Improve ppc support.
+14. Improve MacOS support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.3:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 1214.
+2. Update x86 assembler to check lockable instructions for lock prefix.
+3. Update x86 disassembler to display all prefixes.
+4. Support AMD XOP new instructions.
+5. Fix an x86 assembler regression on Intel syntax.  PR 11037.
+6. Improve ia64 linker relaxation.  PR 10955.
+7. Add --no-relax linker option.
+8. Update readelf to dump .debug_pubtype sections.
+9. Improve gold:
+	a. Support linking against STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols defined in
+	   shared libraries.
+	b. Support linking with STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbols.
+10. Improve arm support.
+11. Improve m68k support.
+12. Improve mips support.
+13. Improve ppc support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.2:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 1109.
+2. Fix "ld -s -static" with STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols.  PR 10911.
+3. Fix file permission on PIE with objcopy. PR 10802.
+4. Fix x86 Intel syntax assembler with relocation.  PR 10856.
+5. Fix x86 Intel syntax assembler with far jump.  PR 10740.
+6. Add AMD LWP support.
+7. Renamed linker option --add-needed to --copy-dt-needed-entries.
+8. Support enabling both ld and gold with --enable-gold=both and
+--enable-linker=[bfd,gold].
+9. Improve gold.
+10. Improve arm support.
+11. Improve cris support.
+12. Improve hppa support.
+13. Improve m68k support.
+14. Improve RX support.
+15. Improve spu support.
+16. Improve vax support.
+17. Improve MacOS support.
+18. Improve Windows support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.1:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 1009.
+2. Add .cfi_sections to assembler.
+3. Fix a linker bug with local dynamic symbols. PR 10630.
+4. Add DWARF-3/DWARF-4 support.
+5. Fix the x86 assembler PIC bug. PR 10677.
+6. Fix the x86-64 displacement assembler bug.  PR 10636.
+7. Fix the x86 assembler bug with Intel memory syntax.  PR 10637.
+8. Fix the x86 PIC assembler bug with Intel syntax. PR 10704.
+9. Add RX support.
+10. Improve gold.
+11. Improve arm support.
+12. Improve bfin support.
+13. Improve cr16 support.
+14. Improve m68k support.
+15. Improve mips support.
+16. Improve ppc support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.14:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0905.
+2. Add Intel L1OM support.
+3. Add MicroBlaze support.
+4. Fix assembler for DWARF info without .file/.loc directives.  PR 10531.
+5. Improve -pie with TLS relocations on ia32 and x86-64.  PRs 6443/10434.
+6. Fix linker page size support.  PR 10569.
+7. Fix wildcard in linker version script.  PR 10518.
+8. Fix strip with STB_GNU_UNIQUE. PR 10492.
+9. Fix strip on unwriteable files.  PR 10364.
+10. Fix crash with "ld --build-id /usr/lib/libc.a".  PR 10555.
+11. Fix linker for Linux kernel build.  PR 10429.
+12. Support string merge on .comment section.
+13. Improve build with C++ compiler.
+14. Improve gold.
+15. Improve arm support.
+16. Improve bfin support.
+11. Improve m32c support.
+17. Improve m68k support.
+18. Improve mep support.
+19. Improve mips support.
+20. Improve ppc support.
+21. Improve spu support.
+22. Improve xtensa support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.13:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0722.
+2. Fix linker for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols in static executables.  PR 10433.
+3. Fix linker bug for Linux kernel build.  PR 10429.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.12:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0721.
+2. Fix linker for undefined STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols.  PR 10426.
+3. Fix x86 assembler for nops in 64bit.  PR 10420.
+4. Add a new option, --insn-width, to objdump.
+5. Improve arm support.
+6. Improve mips support.
+7. Improve gold support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.11:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0716.
+2. Fix x86 assembler for jumping to local STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols.
+3. Fix x86 linker for relocatable link with local STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols.
+4. Implement ppc STT_GNU_IFUNC support.
+5. Support x86 FMA4.
+6. Fix linker regression with Linux kernel build.
+7. Support unordered references in DWARF reader.
+8. Improve PE/COFF support.
+8. Improve arm support.
+9. Improve m10300 support.
+10. Improve ppc support.
+11. Improve spu support.
+12. Improve gold support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.10:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0627.
+2. Fix strip on static executable with STT_GNU_IFUNC symbol.  PR 10337.
+3. Add STB_GNU_UNIQUE support.
+4. Fix objcopy on empty file.  PR 10321.
+5. Fix debug section for PE-COFF.
+6. Suport build with gcc 4.5.0.
+7. Improve arm support.
+8. Improve ppc support.
+9. Improve m10300 support.
+10. Improve mep support.
+11. Improve MacOS support.
+12. Improve gold support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.9:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0618.
+2. Update STT_GNU_IFUNC symbol support.  PR 10269/10270.
+3. Fix an assembler CFI bug.  PR 10255.
+4. Improve objdump.  PR 10263/10288
+5. Improve readelf.
+6. Improve arm support.
+7. Improve moxie support.
+8. Improve spu support.
+9. Improve vax support.
+10. Improve COFF/PE support.
+11. Improve MacOS support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.8:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0606.
+2. Update STT_GNU_IFUNC symbol support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.7:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0603.
+2. Fix STT_GNU_IFUNC symbol with pointer equality.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.6:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0601.
+2. Update STT_GNU_IFUNC support. PR 10205.
+3. Fix x86 asssembler Intel syntax regression with '$'. PR 10198.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.5:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0529.
+2. Rewrite STT_GNU_IFUNC, R_386_IRELATIVE and R_X86_64_IRELATIVE linker
+support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols in shared library, dynamic executable
+and static executable.
+3. Add plugin support.
+4. Improve spu support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.4:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0525.
+2. Add STT_GNU_IFUNC, R_386_IRELATIVE and R_X86_64_IRELATIVE support to
+assembler and linker.
+3. Add LD_AS_NEEDED support to linker.
+4. Remove AMD SSE5 support.
+5. A new Intel syntax parser in x86 assembler.
+6. Add DWARF discriminator support.
+7. Add --64 support for x86 PE/COFF assembler.
+8. Support common symbol with alignment for PE/COFF.
+9. Improve gold support.
+10. Improve arm support.
+11. Improve mep support.
+12. Improve mips support.
+13. Improve ppc support.
+14. Improve spu support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.3:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0418.
+2. Remove EFI targets and use PEI targets for EFI. Add --file-alignment,
+--heap, --image-base, --section-alignment, --stack and --subsystem command
+line options for objcopy.  PR 10074.
+3. Update linker to warn alternate ELF machine code.
+4. Fix x86 linker TLS transition.  PR 9938.
+5. Improve DWARF dumper to check relocations against STT_SECTION
+symbol.
+6. Guard DWARF dumper on bad DWARF input.
+7. Add EM_ETPU and EM_SLE9X.  Reserve 3 ELF machine types for Intel.
+8. Adding a linker missing entry symbol warning for -pie. PR 9970.
+9. Make the -e option for linker to imply -u.  PR 6766.
+10. Properly handle paging for PEI targets.
+11. Fix assembler listing with input from stdin.
+12. Update objcopy/string to generate symbol table if there is any
+relocation in output.  PR 9945.
+13. Require texinfo 4.7 for build.  PR 10039.
+14. Add moxie support.
+15. Improve gold support.
+16. Improve AIX support.
+17. Improve arm support.
+18. Improve cris support.
+19. Improve crx support.
+20. Improve mips support.
+21. Improve ppc support.
+22. Improve s390 support.
+23. Improve spu support.
+24. Improve vax support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.2:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0310.
+2. Fix strip on common symbols in relocatable file.  PR 9933.
+3. Fix --enable-targets=all build.
+4. Fix ia64 build with -Wformat-security.  PR 9874.
+5. Add REGION_ALIAS support in linker script.
+6. Add think archive support to readelf.
+7. Improve DWARF support in objdump.
+8. Improve alpha support.
+9. Improve arm support.
+10. Improve hppa support.
+11. Improve m68k support.
+12. Improve mips support.
+13. Improve ppc support.
+14. Improve xtensa support.
+15. Add score 7 support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.51.0.1:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0204.
+2. Support AVX Programming Reference (January, 2009)
+3. Improve .s suffix support in x86 disassembler.
+4. Add --prefix/--prefix-strip for objdump -S.  PR 9784.
+5. Change "ld --as-needed" to resolve undefined references in DSO.
+6. Add -Ttext-segment to ld to set address of text segment.
+7. Fix "ld -r --gc-sections --entry" crash with COMDAT group.  PR 9727.
+8. Improve linker compatibility for g++ 3.4 `.gnu.linkonce.r.*.
+9. Add VMS/ia64 support.
+10. Improve arm support.
+11. Improve cris support.
+12. Improve m68k support.
+13. Improve mips support.
+14. Improve spu support.
+
+Changes from binutils 2.19.50.0.1:
+
+1. Update from binutils 2009 0106.
+2. Support AVX Programming Reference (December, 2008)
+2. Encode AVX insns with 2byte VEX prefix if possible.
+4. Add .s suffix support to swap register operands to x86 assembler.
+5. Properly select NOP insns for code alignment in x86 assembler.
+6. Fix 2 symbol visibility linker bugs.  PRs 9676/9679.
+7. Fix an ia64 linker relaxation bug.  PR 7036.
+8. Fix a symbol versioning bug. PR 7047.
+9. Fix unitialized data in linker.  PR 7028.
+10. Avoid a linker crash on bad input.  PR 7023.
+11. Fix a linker memory leak.  PR 7012.
+12. Fix strip/objcopy crash on PT_GNU_RELRO.  PR 7011.
+13. Improve MacOS support.
+14. Fix a COFF linker bug.  PR 6945.
+15. Add LM32 support.
+16. Fix various arm bugs.
+17. Fix various avr bugs.
+18. Fix various CR16  bugs.
+19. Fix various cris bugs.
+20. Fix various m32c bugs.
+21. Fix various m68k bugs.
+22. Fix various mips bugs.
+23. Fix various ppc bugs.
+24. Fix various s390 bugs.
+25. Fix various sparc bugs.
+26. Fix various spu bugs.
+27. Fix various xtensa bugs.
+
+The file list:
+
+1. binutils-2.20.51.0.8.tar.bz2. Source code.
+2. binutils-2.20.51.0.8.i686.tar.bz2. IA-32 binary tar ball for RedHat
+   EL 5.
+3. binutils-2.20.51.0.8.ia64.tar.bz2. IA-64 binary tar ball for RedHat
+   EL 5.
+4. binutils-2.20.51.0.8.x86_64.tar.bz2. X64_64 binary tar ball for RedHat
+   EL 5.
+
+The primary sites for the beta Linux binutils are:
+
+1. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/
+
+Thanks.
+
+
+H.J. Lu
+hjl.tools@gmail.com
+04/13/2010