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!

4 files changed, 531 insertions, 1037 deletions

diff --git a/source/d/binutils/binutils-2.20.51.0.8.tar.sign b/source/d/binutils/binutils-2.20.51.0.8.tar.sign
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..32143426
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/d/binutils/binutils-2.20.51.0.8.tar.sign
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
+Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
+Comment: See http://www.kernel.org/signature.html for info
+
+iD8DBQBLxPBQyGugalF9Dw4RAq+mAKCJbsksL4Hlb/tH9dL7kTbFE/BO8QCfXStv
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diff --git a/source/d/binutils/binutils.SlackBuild b/source/d/binutils/binutils.SlackBuild
index c83c2921..b0ffefb6 100755
--- a/source/d/binutils/binutils.SlackBuild
+++ b/source/d/binutils/binutils.SlackBuild
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-# Copyright 2005-2009  Patrick J. Volkerding, Sebeka, Minnesota, USA
+# Copyright 2005-2010  Patrick J. Volkerding, Sebeka, Minnesota, USA
 # All rights reserved.
 #
 # Redistribution and use of this script, with or without modification, is
@@ -21,14 +21,21 @@
 #  ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 
 
-VERSION=2.18.50.0.9
-ARCH=${ARCH:-x86_64}
-NUMJOBS=${NUMJOBS:-" -j7 "}
-BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+PKGNAM=binutils
+VERSION=${VERSION:-$(echo $PKGNAM-*.tar.?z* | rev | cut -f 3- -d . | cut -f 1 -d - | rev)}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-1}
 
-CWD=$(pwd)
-TMP=${TMP:-/tmp}
-PKG=$TMP/package-binutils
+# Automatically determine the architecture we're building on:
+if [ -z "$ARCH" ]; then
+  case "$( uname -m )" in
+    i?86) export ARCH=i486 ;;
+    arm*) export ARCH=arm ;;
+    # Unless $ARCH is already set, use uname -m for all other archs:
+       *) export ARCH=$( uname -m ) ;;
+  esac
+fi
+
+NUMJOBS=${NUMJOBS:-" -j7 "}
 
 if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
   SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
@@ -41,13 +48,18 @@ elif [ "$ARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then
   LIBDIRSUFFIX="64"
 fi
 
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp}
+PKG=$TMP/package-binutils
+
 rm -rf $PKG
 mkdir -p $TMP $PKG
 
 cd $TMP
 rm -rf binutils-$VERSION
-tar xvf $CWD/binutils-$VERSION.tar.bz2 || exit 1
+tar xvf $CWD/binutils-$VERSION.tar.?z* || exit 1
 cd binutils-$VERSION
+
 chown -R root:root .
 find . \
   \( -perm 777 -o -perm 775 -o -perm 711 -o -perm 555 -o -perm 511 \) \
@@ -60,6 +72,8 @@ CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
 ./configure \
   --prefix=/usr \
   --libdir=/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX} \
+  --mandir=/usr/man \
+  --infodir=/usr/info \
   --with-docdir=/usr/doc/binutils-$VERSION \
   --enable-shared \
   --enable-multilib \
@@ -110,6 +124,15 @@ cp \
   $CWD/release.binutils-* \
   COPYING* ChangeLog.linux MAI* README* \
   $PKG/usr/doc/binutils-$VERSION
+
+# If there's a ChangeLog, installing at least part of the recent history
+# is useful, but don't let it get totally out of control:
+if [ -r ChangeLog ]; then
+  DOCSDIR=$(echo $PKG/usr/doc/*-$VERSION)
+  cat ChangeLog | head -n 1000 > $DOCSDIR/ChangeLog
+  touch -r ChangeLog $DOCSDIR/ChangeLog
+fi
+
 chown -R root:root $PKG/usr/doc/binutils-$VERSION
 
 # Add slack-desc:
diff --git a/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.9 b/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.9
deleted file mode 100644
index ecae5c08..00000000
--- a/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.9
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1028 +0,0 @@
-This is the beta release of binutils 2.18.50.0.9 for Linux, which is
-based on binutils 2008 0822 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 2.18.50.0.4 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 2.18.50.0.9 to
-hjl.tools@gmail.com
-
-and
-
-http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.8:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2008 0822.
-2. Add Intel AES+AVX support.
-3. Add syscall and sysret for Cpu64 in x86 assembler.
-4. Fix i386/x86-64 TLS 2 support.
-5. Disable gas generated debug info when compiler generates it.  PR
-gas/6656.
-6. Fix an assembler .set bug.  PR 6848.
-7. Remove 2MB section gap from linker output.  PR ld/6833.
-8. Fix stab warnings caused linker errors.  PR 6478.
-9. Remove AVX registers from DWARF register map.
-10. Fix linking Linux .o against FreeBSD .so.  PR 4424.
-11. Fix objcopy --extract-symbol.  PR 6774.
-12. Improve gold.
-13. Improve mips GOT and non-PIC support.
-14. Fix various arms bugs.
-15. Fix various bfin bugs.
-16. Fix various frv bugs.
-17. Fix various h8300 bugs.
-18. Fix various ppc bugs.
-19. Fix various spu bugs.
-20. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.7:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2008 0709.
-2. Allow vmovd with 64bit operand in x86 assembler.
-3. Improve -msse-check in x86 assembler.
-4. Fix an AVX assembler bug in Intel syntax.  PR 6517.
-5. Improve error message in Intel syntax for x86 assembler.  PR 6518.
-6. Add the ".sse_check" directive to x86 assembler.
-7. Improve gold.
-8. Improve objcopy/strip.  PR 2995/6473.
-9. Improve objdump -g.  PR 6483.
-10. Improve ld --sort-common.  PR 6430.
-11. Add multi-GOT support for m68k.
-12. Fix various arm bugs.
-13. Fix various avr bugs.
-14. Fix various hppa bugs.
-15. Fix various m68k bugs.
-16. Fix various mips bugs.
-17. Fix various mmix bugs.
-18. Fix various ppc bugs.
-19. Fix various spu bugs.
-20. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.6:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2008 0502.
-2. Add Intel EPT and MOVBE support.
-3. Correct Intel FMA operand order.
-4. Change Intel CLMUL to Intel PCLMUL.
-5. Add -msse-check to x86 assembler to warn SSE instruction where
-there is AVX equivalent.
-6. Provide backward compatibility for ELF object files with more
-than 64K sections generated by the older binutils.  PR 6412.
-7. Improve FDPIC support.
-8. Add -wL switch to readelf to dump decoded contents of .debug_line.
-9. Add -ag switch to assembler show general information in listings.
-10. Improve objcopy symbol filtering performance.  PR 6034.
-12. Correct think archive support.
-13. Improve ELF/Sparc support.
-14. Fix various mips bugs.
-15. Fix various sh bugs.
-16. Fix various spu bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.5:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2008 0403.
-2. Add Intel AES, CLMUL, AVX/FMA support.
-3. Improve error handling in x86 linker for undefined hidden/internal
-symbols when building a shared object.  PR ld/5789/5943.
-4. Add a new ELF linker, gold.
-5. Add think archive support.
-6. Fix various arm bugs.
-7. Fix various avr bugs.
-8. Fix various bfin bugs.
-9. Fix various hppa bugs.
-10. Fix various m68k bugs.
-11. Fix various mips bugs.
-12. Fix various s390 bugs.
-13. Fix various spu bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2008 0314.
-2. Add Intel XSAVE new instruction support.
-3. Fix an ia64 linker crash on unsupported TLS relocations.  PR 5913.
-4. Fix x86 assembler for gcc 4.3.
-5. Fix a linker memory corruption.  PR 5788.
-6. Correct linker 64k section support.  PR 5900.
-7. Correct hidden, weak and undefined symbol handling. PR 5789.
-8. Fix linker for 64bit targets on 32bit hosts.  PR 5303/5755.
-9. Fix assembler crash with .set on register.  PR 5543.
-10. Fix a typo in linker.  PR 5765.
-11. Fix "string -O" infinite loop.  PR 5713.
-12. Fix .exitm in assembler.  PR 5895.
-13. Fix a linker crash.  PR 5761.
-14. Fix various arm bugs.
-15. Fix various bfin bugs.
-16. Fix various h8 bugs.
-17. Fix various ppc bugs.
-18. Fix various spu bugs.
-19. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2008 0208.
-2. Update readelf/objdump to dump DWARF frame info with machine
-register names on x86.
-3. Optimize x86-64 assembler to omit REX.W prefix when it is ignored.
-4. Add operand size check to x86 assembler.  PR 5534.
-5. Add -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mmnemonic, -msyntax, -mindex-reg,
--mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc options to x86 assembler.
-6. Add -Mintel-mnemonic/-Mintel-mnemonic options to x86 disassembler.
-7. Update x86 disassembler to handle r12 like rsp in memory operand.
-8. Update x86 disassembler to properly support movntq, movntsd,
-movntss, movntps, movntpd, movntdq and movntdqa.
-9. Update x86 disassembler to support AMD nops.
-10. Update x86 disassembler for cvtsi2ss/cvtsi2sd.
-11. Fix x86 assembler to support new instructions on 2 different archs.
-12. Update linker not to generate incorrect debug info for 64bit target
-on 32bit host.  PR 5303.
-13. Update ia64 assembler to support new registers in Itanium 9100
-series.
-14. Fix strip on PT_NOTE segment.  PR 5488.
-15. Fix strip/objcopy on HPUX/ia64.  PR 5449.
-16. Fix strip/objcopy for EFI.  PR 5307.
-17. Remove duplicated sections from objdump for COFF/PE.  PR 5299.
-18. Fix a linker corruption.  PR 5522.
-19. Fix mingw for 64bit targets.
-20. Fix various arm bugs.
-21. Fix various fr30 bugs.
-22. Fix various frv bugs.
-23. Fix various hppa bugs.
-24. Fix various m10300 bugs.
-25. Fix various m32r bugs.
-26. Fix various m68k bugs.
-27. Fix various mips bugs.
-28. Fix various ppc bugs.
-29. Fix various spu bugs.
-30. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 1102.
-2. Support link in Linux object files on FreeBSD.  PR 4424.
-3. Add Intel SMX instruction support to x86 assembler/diasassembler.
-4. Fix an objcopy regression where we failed to adjust section
-flags.  PR 5233.
-5. Improve irregular instruction support in x86 assembler.
-6. Improve support for instructions with restricted operands in x86
-diasassembler.
-7. Fix an x86-64 assembler bug where extra REX byte generated in Intel
-mode.  PR 5109.
-8. Update .pushsection directive support in assembler.  PRs 5221.
-9. Improve linker -z relro support.
-10. Add support for generating wide character strings in assembler.
-11. Improve relocation process for DWARF debug info in readelf.
-12. Add a linker warning for invalid merge section with unterminated
-strings.
-13. Improve linker support of DWARF debug info for discarded sections
-during linker-relaxation.
-14. Improve fabs detection.  PR 5147.
-15. Improve non-bash support.  PR 5215.
-16. Improve support for non-gcc compiler.  PRs 5146/5160.
-17. Improve error messages.  PRs 5172/5173/5161/5158/5155/
-5121-5126/5129/5131-5137/5143/5142/5078/5089/5090.
-18. Fix various cr16 bugs.
-19. Fix various m10300 bugs.
-20. Fix various mips bugs.
-21. Fix various ppc bugs.
-22. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 1001.
-2. Speed up hash table lookup in linker. 
-3. Add -c/--archive-index option to readelf.
-4. Fix an readelf crash. PR 5011.
-5. Fix an x86 assembler Intel mode bug. PR 5080.
-6. Add EIP support in x86 assembler.
-7. Add fake index registers, EIZ/RIZ, to x86 assembler/disassembler.
-8. Improve x86 assembler error message for truncated values. PR 5026.
-9. Remove a COFF assertion in COFF assembler. PR 5035.
-10. Add AMD SSE5 support to x86 assembler/disassembler.
-11. Fix x86 assembler for extrq/insertq in Intel mode.
-12. Fix x86 disassembler for invalid opcodes in 64bit. PR 5072.
-13. Fix auto-import in PE-COFF linker.  PR 4844.
-14. Correct -z now in ELF linker.
-15. Fix a --build-id linker crash.  PR 5025.
-16. Improved x86 assembler/disassembler infrastructure for new
-instruction support.
-17. Fix various m68k bugs.
-18. Fix various ppc bugs.
-19. Fix various spu bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.18:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0908.
-2. Fix an ELF linker for SHT_NOBITS sections.  PR 2864/5006.
-3. Improve TLS transition check in i386 and x86-64 linkers.
-4. Fix a GD->LE/LD->LE TLS transition bug in i386 and x86-64 linkers.
-PR 4918.
-5. Update ELF linker to dump segment map when a section can't be allocated
-in segment. PR 4909.
-6. Clean up x86 disassembler to remove fixups and make it more
-table driven.
-7. Fix x86 disassember for SSE instructions in Intel mode. PR 4834.
-8. Properly handle bss segments in ELF linker.
-9. Add --string-dump to readelf.
-10. Fix objcopy -R .debug_* --only-keep-debug regression. PR 4888.
-11. Change x86 assembler to follow SVME specification.
-12. Fix x86 assembler for cmpxchg8b, pextrb and pinsrb in Intel mode.
-13. Update x86 assembler to better handle expressions with @GOT suffix.
-PR 4079.
-14. Properly handle section alignment >= 128 byte for PECOFF.
-15. Fix an ELF linker --build-id option crash.  PR 4923.
-16. Fix binutils build on HP-UX. PR 4875.
-17. Fix a regression of the a.out linker -N option. PR 4515.
-18. Update x86 disassembler for invlpg, fxsave, fxrstor, ldmxcsr and
-stmxcsr in Intel mode.
-19. Fix x86 assembler for SSE4 instructions in Intel mode.
-20. Fix various arm bugs.
-21. Fix various mips bugs.
-22. Fix various ppc bugs.
-23. Fix various spu bugs.
-24. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.17:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0731.
-2. Switching from GPLv2 to GPLv3.
-3. Add a new ELF linker option, --build-id, to generate a unique
-per-binary identifier embedded in a note section.
-4. Remove COFF/x86-64 from PE-COFF/x86-64.
-5. Fix a "nm -l" crash on DWARF info. PR 4797.
-6. Match symbol type when creating symbol aliase in ELF shared library. 
-7. Fix addr2line on relocatable linux kernel. PR 4756.
-8. Change disassembler to print addend as signed.
-9. Support section alignment from 128 to 8192 bytes for PE-COFF.
-10. Add attribute section to ELF linker.
-11. Fix ELF linker to meet gABI alignment requirement. PR 4701.
-12. Add support for reading in debug information via a .gnu_debuglink
-section.
-13. Fix string merge for ia64 linker. PR 4590.
-14. Add --common to size to display total size for *COM* syms.
-15. Fix "strip --strip-unneeded" on relocatable files. PR 4716.
-16. Fix "objcopy/strip --only-keep-debug" for SHT_NOTE sections.
-17. Fix objdump -S with unit-at-a-time.
-18. Properly handle "-shared -pie" in linker. PR 4409.
-19. Fix x86 disassembler in Intel mode for various SIMD instruction.
-PRs 4667/4834.
-20. Update x86-64 assembler to long nop sequence by default.
-21. Fix --32 for x86-64 mingw assembler.
-22. Fix a memory corruption in assembler.  PR 4722.
-22. Properly support 64bit PE-COFF on hosts where long isn't 64bit.
-23. Add #line in generated linker source files.
-24. Fix linker crash on SIZEOF.  PR 4782.
-27. Add CR16 support.
-28. Add windmc tool for Windows.
-29. Generate x86 instruction/register definitions from ascii tables.
-30. Fix strip for Solaris. PR 4712.
-31. Fix various mips bugs.
-32. Fix various ppc bugs.
-33. Fix various spu bugs.
-34. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.16:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0615.
-2. Preserve section alignment for copy relocation.  PR 4504.
-3. Properly fix regression with objcopy --only-keep-debug.  PR 4479.
-4. Fix ELF eh frame handling.  PR 4497.
-5. Fix ia64 string merge.  PR 4590.
-5. Don't use PE target on EFI files nor EFI target on PE files.
-6. Speed up linker with many input files.
-7. Support cross compiling windres.  PR 2737.
-8. Fix various windres bugs.
-9. Fix various arms bugs.
-10. Fix various m68k bugs.
-11. Fix various mips bugs.
-12. Fix various ppc bugs.
-13. Fix various sparc bugs.
-14. Fix various spu bugs.
-15. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.15:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0511.
-2. Fix objcopy --only-keep-debug and linker multiple BSS sections handling.
-PR 4479.
-3. Fix "readelf -s -D" for gnu hash.  PR 4476.
-4. Fix ia64 linker crash with --unresolved-symbols=ignore-all. PR 4409.
-5. Improve crc32 support in x86 assembler/dissassembler.
-6. Improve displacement handling in x86 dissassembler. PR 4430.
-7. Correct PC relative displacement handling in x86-64 dissassembler for
-Intel mode. PR 4429.
-8. Fix various PPC bugs.
-9. Fix various SPU bugs.
-10. Fix various ARM bugs.
-11. Fix various m68k bugs.
-12. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.14:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0418.
-2. Support Intel SSE4 instructions.
-3. Fix linker --fatal-warnings for --warn-shared-textrel. PR 4304.
-4. Improve linker error message to identify linker script error
-location. PR 4090.
-5. Fix objcopy to allow removing all sections. PR 4348.
-6. Don't print addresses of 32-bit targets as 64-bit values on 64bit
-host. PR 4292.
-7. Improve checking for corrupted input files. PR 4110.
-8. Improve alpha linker performance.
-9. Add a new linker option, -l:foo.
-10. Fix a PPC linker bug. PR 4267.
-11. Misc vxworks bug fixes.
-12. Misc SH bug fixes.
-13. Misc SPU bug fixes.
-14. Misc ARM bug fixes.
-15. Misc MIPS bug fixes.
-16. Misc xtensa bug fixes.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.13:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0322.
-2. Fix >16byte nop padding regression in x86 assembler.
-3. Fix x86-64 disassembler for xchg. PR 4218.
-4. Optimize opcode for x86-64 xchg.
-5. Allow register operand with x86 nop.
-6. Properly handle holes between sections for PE-COFF. PR 4210.
-7. Print more PE-COFF info for objdump -p.
-8. Report missing matching LO16 relocation for HI16 relocation in mips
-linker.
-9. Use PC-relative relocation for Win64.
-10. Fix strip for Solaris. PR 3535.
-11. Fix a C++ demangler crash.
-12. Some m32c update.
-13. Fix misc ARM bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.12:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0315.
-2. Add EFI/x86-64 support.
-3. Fix ELF linker for relocation against STN_UNDEF. PR 3958.
-4. Fix ELF linker for SHT_NOBITS section whose VMA > page size. PR 4144.
-5. Make assembler and disassembler consistent for "test %eax,%ebx". PR
-4027.
-6. Fix i386 32bit address wraparound. PR 3966.
-7. Allow Linux/i386 linker to read FreeBSD/i386 object files.
-8. Fix ELF linker crash upon use of .gnu.warning.<symbol> sections. PR
-3953.
-9. Fix ELF linker to issue an error on bad section in segment. PR 4007.
-10. Support enabling both x86_64-mingw32 and i386-mingw32. PR 3945.
-11. Fix assembler to stabilize .gcc_except_table relaxation. PR 4029.
-12. Fix a MIPS linker crash. PR 3852.
-13. Fix readelf for h8300-elf. PR 3800.
-14. Fix strip for Solaris. PR 3535.
-15. Misc xtensa bug fixes.
-16. Misc PPC bug fixes.
-17. Misc SPU bug fixes.
-18. Add support for Toshiba MeP.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.11:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0128.
-2. Remove duplicate code in x86 assembler.
-3. Fix 32bit and 64bit HPPA/ELF.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.10:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0125.
-2. Support environment variables, LD_SYMBOLIC for -Bsymbolic and
-LD_SYMBOLIC_FUNCTIONS for -Bsymbolic-functions.
-3. Build binutils rpm with LD_SYMBOLIC_FUNCTIONS=1 and reduce PLT
-relocations in libfd.so by 84%.
-4. Enable sharable sections only for ia32, x86-64 and ia64.
-5. Properly handle PT_GNU_RELRO segment for objcopy.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.9:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0122.
-2. Implement sharable section proposal for ia32, x86-64 and ia64:
-
-http://groups-beta.google.com/group/generic-abi
-
-3. Implement linker enhancement, -Bsymbolic-functions,
---dynamic-list-cpp-new and --dynamic-list-data.  PR 3831.
-4. Implement new linker switch, --default-script=FILE/-dT FILE.
-5. Check EI_OSABI when reading ELF files.  PR 3826.
-6. Fix x86 assembler error message. PR 3830.
-7. Fix a bug in ld testsuite.  PR 1283.
-8. Don't include archive64.o for 32bit target.  PR 3631.
-9. Support -z max-page-size and -z common-page-size in user provided
-linker script.
-10. Fix 32bit library support for GNU/kFreeBSD/x86-64.  PR 3843.
-11. Fix some bugs in Score assembler. PR 3871.
-12. Fix various bugs in ARM assembler. PR 3707 and more.
-13. Add Fido support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.8:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2007 0103.
-2. Fix --wrap linker bug.
-3. Improve handling ELF binaries generated by foreign ELF linkers.
-4. Various ELF M68K bug fixes.
-5. Score bug fixes.
-6. Don't read past end of archive elements. PR 3704.
-7. Improve .eh_frame_hdr section handling.
-8. Fix symbol visibility with comdat/linkonce sections in ELF linker.
-PR 3666.
-9. Fix 4 operand instruction handling in x86 assembler.
-10. Properly check the 4th operand in x86 assembler. PR 3712.
-11. Fix .cfi_endproc handling in assembler. PR 3607.
-12. Various ARM bug fixes.
-13. Various PE linker fixes.
-14. Improve x86 dissassembler for cmpxchg16b.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.7:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 1201.
-2. Fix "objcopy --only-keep-debug" crash. PR 3609.
-3. Fix various ARM ELF bugs.
-4. Fix various xtensa bugs.
-5. Update x86 disassembler.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.6:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 1127.
-2. Properly set ELF output segment address when the first section in
-input segment is removed.
-3. Better merging of CIEs in linker .eh_frame optimizations.
-4. Support .cfi_personality and .cfi_lsda assembler directives.
-5. Fix an ARM linker crash. PR 3532.
-6. Fix various PPC64 ELF bugs.
-7. Mark discarded debug info more thoroughly in linker output.
-8. Fix various MIPS ELF bugs.
-9. Fix readelf to display program interpreter path > 64 chars. PR 3384.
-10. Add support for PowerPC SPU.
-11. Properly handle cloned symbols used in relocations in assembler. PR
-3469.
-12. Update opcode for POPCNT in amdfam10 architecture.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.5:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 1020.
-2. Don't make debug symbol dynamic. PR 3290.
-3. Don't page align empty SHF_ALLOC sections, which leads to very large
-executables. PR 3314.
-4. Use a different section index for section relative symbols against
-removed empty sections.
-5. Fix a few ELF EH frame handling bugs.
-6. Don't ignore relocation overflow on branches to undefweaks for
-x86-64. PR 3283.
-7. Rename MNI to SSSE3.
-8. Properly append symbol list for --dynamic-list.
-lists.
-9. Various ARM ELF fixes.
-10. Correct 64bit library search path for Linux/x86 linker with 64bit
-support.
-11. Fix ELF linker to copy OS/PROC specific flags from input section to
-output section.
-12. Fix DW_FORM_ref_addr handling in linker dwarf reader. PR 3191.
-13. Fix ELF indirect symbol handling. PR 3351.
-14. Fix PT_GNU_RELRO segment handling for SHF_TLS sections. Don't add
-PT_GNU_RELRO segment when there are no relro sections. PR 3281.
-15. Various MIPS ELF fixes.
-16. Various Sparc ELF fixes.
-17. Various Xtensa ELF fixes.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 0927.
-2. Fix linker regressions of section address and section relative symbol
-with empty output section. PR 3223/3267.
-3. Fix "strings -T". PR 3257.
-4. Fix "objcopy --only-keep-debug". PR 3262.
-5. Add Intell iwmmxt2 support.
-6. Fix an x86 disassembler bug. PR 3100.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 0924.
-2. Speed up linker on .o files with debug info on linkonce sections.
-PR 3111.
-3. Added x86-64 PE support.
-4. Fix objcopy/strip on .o files with section groups. PR 3181.
-5. Fix "ld --hash-style=gnu" crash with gcc 3.4.6. PR 3197.
-6. Fix "strip --strip-debug" on .o files generated with
-"gcc -feliminate-dwarf2-dups". PR 3186.
-7. Fix "ld -r" on .o files generated with "gcc -feliminate-dwarf2-dups".
-PR 3249.
-8. Add --dynamic-list to linker to make global symbols dynamic.
-9. Fix magic number for EFI ia64. PR 3171.
-10. Remove PT_NULL segment for "ld -z relro". PR 3015.
-11. Make objcopy to perserve the file formats in archive elements.
-PR 3110.
-12. Optimize x86-64 assembler and fix disassembler for
-"add32 mov xx,$eax". PR 3235.
-13. Improve linker diagnostics. PR 3107.
-14. Fix "ld --sort-section name". PR 3009.
-15. Updated an x86 disassembler bug. PR 3000.
-16. Various updates for PPC, ARM, MIPS, SH, Xtensa.
-17. Added Score support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 0715.
-2. Add --hash-style to ELF linker with DT_GNU_HASH and SHT_GNU_HASH.
-3. Fix a visibility bug in ELF linker (PR 2884).
-4. Properly fix the i386 TLS linker bug (PR 2513).
-5. Add assembler and dissassembler support for Pentium Pro nops.
-6. Optimize x86 nops for Pentium Pro and above.
-7. Add -march=/-mtune= to x86 assembler.
-8. Fix an ELF linker with TLS common symbols.
-9. Improve program header allocation in ELF linker.
-10. Improve MIPS, M68K and ARM support.
-11. Fix an ELF linker crash when reporting alignment change (PR 2735).
-12. Remove unused ELF section symbols (PR 2723).
-13. Add --localize-hidden to objcopy.
-14. Add AMD SSE4a and ABM new instruction support.
-15. Properly handle illegal x86 instructions in group 11 (PR 2829).
-16. Add "-z max-page-size=" and "-z common-page-size=" to ELF linker.
-17. Fix objcopy for .tbss sections.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 0526.
-2. Change the x86-64 maximum page size to 2MB.
-3. Support --enable-targets=all for 64bit target and host (PR 1485).
-4. Properly update CIE/FDE length and align section for .eh_frame
-section (PR 2655/2657).
-5. Properly handle removed ELF section symbols.
-6. Fix an ELF linker regression introduced on 2006-04-21.
-7. Fix an segfault in PPC ELF linker (PR 2658).
-8. Speed up the ELF linker by caching the result of kept section check.
-9. Properly create stabs section for ELF.
-10. Preserve ELF program header when copying ELF files.
-11. Properly handle ELF SHN_LOPROC/SHN_HIOS when checking section
-index (PR 2607).
-12. Misc mips updates.
-13. Misc arm updates.
-14. Misc xtensa updates.
-15. Fix an alpha assembler warning (PR 2598).
-16. Fix assembler buffer overflow.
-17. Properly disassemble sgdt/sidt for x86-64.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.7:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 0427.
-2. Fix an objcopy regression (PR 2593).
-3. Reduce ar memory usage (PR 2467).
-4. Allow application specific ELF sections (PR 2537).
-5. Fix an i386 TLS linker bug (PR 2513).
-6. Speed up ia64 linker by 1300X in some cases (PR 2442).
-7. Check illegal immediate register operand in i386 assembler (PR
-2533).
-8. Fix a strings bug (PR 2584).
-9. Better handle corrupted ELF files (PR 2257).
-10. Fix a MIPS linker bug (PR 2267).
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.6:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 0317.
-2. Support Intel Merom New Instructions in assembler/disassembler.
-3. Support Intel new instructions in Montecito.
-4. Fix linker "--as-needed" (PR 2434).
-5. Fix linker "-s" regression (PR 2462).
-6. Fix REP prefix for string instructions in x86 disassembler
-(PR 2428).
-7. Fix the weak undefined symbols in PIE (PR 2218).
-8. Fix 2 DWARF reader bugs (PRs 2443, 2338).
-9. Improve ELF linker error message (PR 2322).
-10. Avoid abort with dynamic symbols in >64K sections (PR 2411).
-11. Handle mismatched symbol types for executables (PR 2404).
-12. Avoid a linker linkonce regression (PR 2342).
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.5:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2006 0212.
-2. Correct Linux linker search order for DT_NEEDED entries (PR 2290).
-3. Fix the x86-64 disassembler for control/debug register moves.
-4. Properly handle ELF strip/objcopy with unmodified program header
-(PR 2258).
-5. Improve ELF linker error handling when there are not enough room for
-program headers (PR 2322).
-6. Properly handle weak undefined symbols in PIE (PR 2218).
-7. Support new i386/x86-64 TLS relocations.
-8. Fix addr2line for linux kernel (PR 2096).
-9. Fix an assembler memory leak with --statistics.
-10. Avoid an ia64 assembler regression (PR 2117).
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 1219.
-2. Fix a MIPS linker regression (PR 1932).
-3. Fix an objcopy bug for ia64 (PR 1991).
-4. Fix a linker crash on bad input (PR 2008).
-5. Fix 64bit monitor and mwait (PR 1874).
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 1111.
-2. Fix ELF orphan section handling (PR 1467)
-3. Fix ELF section attribute handleing (PR 1487).
-4. Fix IA64 unwind info dump for relocatable files. (PR 1436).
-5. Add DWARF info dump to objdump.
-6. Fix SHF_LINK_ORDER handling (PR 1321).
-7. Don't allow "ld --just-symbols" on DSO (PR 1263).
-8. Fix a "ld -u" crash on TLS symbol (PR 1301).
-9. Fix an IA64 linker crash (PR 1247).
-10. Fix a MIPS linker bug (PR 1150).
-11. Fix a M68K linker bug (PR 1775).
-12. Fix an ELF symbol versioning linker bug (PR 1540).
-13. Improve linker error handling (PR 1208).
-14. Add new SPARC processors to SunOS for objcopy (PR 1472).
-15. Add "@file" to read options from a file.
-16. Add assembler weakref support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 0821.
-2. Support x86-64 medium model.
-3. Fix "objdump -S --adjust-vma=xxx" (PR 1179).
-4. Reduce R_IA64_NONE relocations from R_IA64_LDXMOV relaxation.
-5. Fix x86 linker regression for dosemu.
-6. Add "readelf -t/--section-details" to display section details.
-7. Fix "as -al=file" regression (PR 1118).
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 0720.
-2. Add Intel VMX support.
-3. Add AMD SVME support.
-4. Add x86-64 new relocations for medium model.
-5. Fix a PIE regression (PR 975).
-6. Fix an x86_64 signed 32bit displacement regression.
-7. Fix PPC PLT (PR 1004). 
-8. Improve empty section removal.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.90.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 0622.
-2. Fix a linker versioning bug exposed by gcc 4 (PR 1022/1023/1025).
-3. Optimize ia64 br->brl relaxation (PR 834).
-4. Improve linker empty section removal.
-5. Fix DWARF 2 line number reporting (PR 990).
-6. Fix DWARF 2 line number reporting regression on assembly file (PR
-1000).
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.90.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 0510.
-2. Update ia64 assembler to support comdat group section generated by
-gcc 4 (PR 940).
-3. Fix a linker crash on bad input (PR 939).
-4. Fix a sh64 assembler regression (PR 936).
-5. Support linker script on executable (PR 882).
-6. Fix the linker -pie regression (PR 878).
-7. Fix an x86_64 disassembler bug (PR 843).
-8. Fix a PPC linker regression.
-9. Misc speed up.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.16.90.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 0429.
-2. Fix an ELF linker regression (PR 815).
-3. Fix an empty section removal related bug.
-4. Fix an ia64 linker regression (PR 855).
-5. Don't allow local symbol to be equated common/undefined symbols (PR
-857).
-6. Fix the ia64 linker to handle local dynamic symbol error reporting.
-7. Make non-debugging reference to discarded section an error (PR 858).
-8. Support Sparc/TLS.
-9. Support rpm build with newer rpm.
-10. Fix an alpha linker regression.
-11. Fix the non-gcc build regression.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.94.0.2.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2005 0408.
-2. The i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving
-between a segment register and a 32bit memory location.
-3. The x86_64 assembler now allows movq between a segment register and
-a 64bit general purpose register.
-4. 20x Speed up linker for input files with >64K sections.
-5. Properly report ia64 linker relaxation failures.
-6. Support tuning ia64 assembler for Itanium 2 processors.
-7. Linker will remove empty unused output sections.
-8. Add -N to readelf to display full section names.
-9. Fix the ia64 linker to support linkonce text sections without unwind
-sections.
-10. More unwind directive checkings in the ia64 assembler.
-11. Speed up linker with wildcard handling.
-12. Fix readelf to properly dump .debug_ranges and .debug_loc sections.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.94.0.2:
-
-1. Fix greater than 64K section support in linker.
-2. Properly handle i386 and x86_64 protected symbols in linker.
-3. Fix readelf for LEB128 on 64bit hosts.
-4. Speed up readelf for section group process.
-5. Include ia64 texinfo pages.
-6. Change ia64 assembler to check hint.b for Montecito.
-7. Improve relaxation failure report in ia64 linker.
-8. Fix ia64 linker to allow relax backward branch in the same section.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.94.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 1220.
-2. Fix strip for TLS symbol references.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.92.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 1121.
-2. Put ia64 .ctors/.dtors sections next to small data section for
-Intel ia64 compiler.
-3. Fix -Bdynamic/-Bstatic handling for linker script.
-4. Provide more information on relocation overflow.
-5. Add --sort-section to linker.
-6. Support icc 8.1 unwind info in readelf.
-7. Fix the infinite loop bug on bad input in the ia64 assembler.
-8. Fix ia64 SECREL relocation in linker.
-9. Fix a section group memory leak in readelf.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.91.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 0927.
-2. Work around a section header bug in Intel ia64 compiler.
-3. Fix an unwind directive bug in the ia64 assembler.
-4. Fix various PPC bugs.
-5. Update ARM support.
-6. Fix an x86-64 linker warning while building Linux kernel.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.91.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 0727.
-2. Fix the x86_64 linker to prevent non-PIC code in shared library.
-3. Fix the ia64 linker to warn the relotable files which can't be
-relaxed.
-4. Fix the comdat group support. Allow mix single-member comdat group
-with linkonce section.
-5. Added --add-needed/--no-add-needed options to linker.
-6. Fix the SHF_LINK_ORDER support.
-7. Fix the ia64 assembler for multiple sections with the same name and
-SHT_IA_64_UNWIND sections.
-8. Fix the ia64 assembler for merge section and relaxation.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 0527.
-2. Fix -x auto option in the ia64 assembler.
-3. Add the AR check in the ia64 assembler.
-4. Fix the section group support.
-5. Add a new -z relro linker option.
-6. Fix an exception section placement bug in linker.
-7. Add .serialize.data and .serialize.instruction to the ia64
-assembler.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 0415.
-2. Fix the linker for weak undefined symbol handling.
-3. Fix the ELF/Sparc and ELF/Sparc64 linker for statically linking PIC
-code.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.1.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 0412.
-2. Add --as-needed/--no-as-needed to linker.
-3. Fix -z defs in linker.
-4. Always reserve the memory for ia64 dynamic linker.
-5. Fix a race condition in ia64 lazy binding.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.1:
-
-1. Fixed an ia64 assembler bug.
-2. Install the assembler man page.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.8:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 0303.
-2. Fixed linker for undefined symbols with non-default visibility.
-3. Sped up linker weakdef symbol handling.
-4. Fixed mixing ELF32 and ELF64 object files in archive.
-5. Added ia64 linker brl optimization.
-6. Fixed ia64 linker to disallow invalid dynamic relocations.
-7. Fixed DT_TEXTREL handling in ia64 linker.
-8. Fixed alignment handling in ia64 assembler.
-9. Improved ia64 assembler unwind table handling. 
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.7:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2004 0114.
-2. Fixed an ia64 assembler unwind table bug. 
-3. Better handle IPF linker relaxation overflow.
-4. Fixed misc PPC bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.6:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 1029.
-2. Allow type changes for undefined symbols.
-3. Fix EH frame optimization.
-4. Fix the check for undefined versioned symbol with wildcard.
-5. Support generating code for Itanium.
-6. Detect and warn bad symbol index.
-7. Update IPF assemebler DV check.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.5:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 0820.
-2. No longer use section names for ELF section types nor flags.
-3. Fix some ELF/IA64 linker bugs.
-4. Fix some ELF/ppc bugs.
-5. Add archive support to readelf.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.4.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 0722.
-2. Fix an ELF/mips linker bug.
-3. Fix an ELF/hpppa linker bug.
-4. Fix an ELF/ia64 assembler bug.
-5. Fix a linkonce support with C++ debug.
-6. A new working C++ demangler.
-7. Various alpha, mips, ia64, ... bug fixes.
-8. Support for the current gcc and glibc.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.4:
- 
-1. Fix an ia64 assembler hint@pause bug.
-2. Support Intel Prescott New Instructions.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.3:
-
-1. Work around the brain dead libtool.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 0523.
-2. Fix 2 ELF visibility bugs.
-3. Fix ELF/ppc linker bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 0515.
-2. Fix various ELF visibility bugs.
-3. Fix some ia64 linker bugs.
-4. Add more IAS compatibilities to ia64 assembler.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.20:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 0505.
-2. Fix various ELF visibility bugs.
-3. Fix some ia64 linker bugs.
-4. Fix some ia64 assembler bugs.
-5. Add some IAS compatibilities to ia64 assembler.
-6. Fix ELF common symbol alignment.
-7. Fix ELF weak symbol handling.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.18:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 0319.
-2. Fix an ia64 linker brl relaxation bug.
-3. Fix some ELF/ppc linker bugs.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.16:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2003 0121.
-2. Fix an ia64 gas bug.
-3. Fix some TLS bugs.
-4. Fix some ELF/ppc bugs.
-5. Fix an ELF/m68k bug.
-
-2. Include /usr/bin/c++filt.
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.14:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2002 1126.
-2. Include /usr/bin/c++filt.
-3. Fix "ld -r" with execption handling.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.10:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2002 1114.
-2. Fix ELF/alpha bugs.
-3. Fix an ELF/i386 assembler bug.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2002 1010.
-2. More ELF/PPC linker bug fixes.
-3. Fix an ELF/alpha linker bug.
-4. Fix an ELF/sparc linker bug to support Solaris.
-5. More TLS updates.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2002 0814.
-2. Fix symbol versioning bugs for gcc 3.2.
-3. Fix mips gas.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2002 0809.
-2. Fix a mips gas compatibility bug.
-3. Fix an x86 TLS bfd bug.
-4. Fix an x86 PIC gas bug.
-5. Improve symbol versioning support.
-
-The file list:
-
-1. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.tar.bz2. Source code.
-2. binutils-2.18.50.0.8-2.18.50.0.9.diff.bz2. Patch against the
-   previous beta source code.
-3. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.i686.tar.bz2. IA-32 binary tar ball for RedHat
-   EL 4.
-4. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.ia64.tar.bz2. IA-64 binary tar ball for RedHat
-   EL 4.
-5. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.x86_64.tar.bz2. X64_64 binary tar ball for RedHat
-   EL 4.
-
-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
-08/23/2008
diff --git a/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.20.51.0.8 b/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.20.51.0.8
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d3d2bd8a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.20.51.0.8
@@ -0,0 +1,491 @@
+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