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diff --git a/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.23.52.0.1 b/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.23.52.0.1 deleted file mode 100644 index 192948f3..00000000 --- a/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.23.52.0.1 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,775 +0,0 @@ -This is the beta release of binutils 2.23.52.0.1 for Linux, which is -based on binutils 2013 0226 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 2.23.52.0.1 release, when creating executables, BFD -linker will issue an error for undefined weak reference which is -defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED. Previously BFD linker -will silently include the shared library from DT_NEEDED. - -Starting from the 2.21.51.0.3 release, you must remove .ctors/.dtors -section sentinels when building glibc or other C run-time libraries. -Otherwise, you will run into: - -http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12343 - -Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, BFD linker has the working LTO -plugin support. It can be used with GCC 4.5 and above. For GCC 4.5, you -need to configure GCC with --enable-gold to enable LTO plugin support. - -Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, binutils fully supports compressed -debug sections. However, compressed debug section isn't turned on by -default in assembler. I am planning to turn it on for x86 assembler in -the future release, which may lead to the Linux kernel bug messages like - -WARNING: lib/ts_kmp.o (.zdebug_aranges): unexpected non-allocatable section. - -But the resulting kernel works fine. - -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.bfd will be installed as ld. You can use the configure -option, --enable-gold=both/gold to choose gold as the default linker, -ld. IA-32 binary and X64_64 binary tar balls are configured with ---enable-gold=both/ld --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 2.23.52.0.1 to -hjl.tools@gmail.com - -and - -http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/ - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.9: - -1. Update from binutils 2013 0226. -2. Add Intel SAMP new instruction support. -3. Allow dynamic R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64 -relocations agaist TLS symbols. -4. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only for definition. PR 15167. -5. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only if symbol is defined in -regular object. PR 15107. -6. Don't add DT_NEEDED for references from the LTO IR input. PR 15146. -7. When creating executables, BFD linker will issue an error for undefined -weak reference which is defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED. -PR 15149. -8. Also trace symbol from the LTO IR input. PR 15141. -9. Support stripping LTO IR sections. PR 15033. -10. Don't allow a nested archive pointing to itself and don't generate -bad archive. PR 15140. -11. Fix objcopy segfault on non-ELF input. PR 14873. -12. Update DWARF dump support. -13. Improve gold. -14. Add nios2 support. -15. Improve mach support. -16. Improve aarch64 support. -17. Improve arm support. -18. Improve avr support. -19. Improve h8300 support. -20. Improve meta support. -21. Improve mips support. -22. Improve ppc support. -23. Improve rl78 support. -24. Improve sparc support. -25. Improve v850 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.8: - -1. Update from binutils 2013 0118. -2. Support R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64 -relocations. -3. Fix x86 assembler for "xtrn@got -1". PR 15019. -4. Don't generate old dtags with --enable-new-dtags. -5. Add Meta support. -6. Improve gold. -7. Improve aarch64 support. -8. Improve arm support. -9. Improve cr16 support. -10. Improve mips support. -11. Improve ppc support. -12. Improve v850 support. -13. Improve xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.7: - -1. Properly adjust h->plt.refcount. PR 14980. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1218. -2. Add missing R_*_IRELATIVE relocations. PR 14968. -3. Remove unnecessary R_*_NONE relocations. PR 14956. -4. Fix ar/ranlib on 32-bit filesystems. PR 14933. -5. Fix a "Not enough room for program headers" linker bug. PR 14926. -6. Support self-assignment in a linker script to convert symbols to -absolute. PR 14962. -7. Support --copy-dt-needed-entries when creating DSO. PR 14915. -8. Improve linker plugin DSO error handling. PR 14904. -9. Issue warning for plugin dummy. PR 12760. -10. Add -fuse-ld=bfd|gold support to ld and gold. -11. Fix gold configure. PR 14897. -12. Correct gas dependency. PR 14899. -13. Add rdos support. -14. Improve gold. -15. Improve nacl support. -16. Improve aarch64 support. -17. Improve arm support. -18. Improve microblaze support. -19. Improve mips support. -20. Improve ppc support. -21. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1123. -2. Fix 64-bit jecxz encoding regression in x86 assembler. PR 14859. -3. Revert an accidental linker change. PR 14862. -4. Fix x32 TLS LD to LE optimization in gold. PR 14858. -5. Add "-z global" option to set DF_1_GLOBAL to ld. -6. Improve ld plugin error handling. -7. Port ld lib32 arrangement from Debian. -8. Properly set the output maxpagesize when rewriting program header. -PR 14493. -9. Add additional DF_1_XXX support to readelf. -10. Improve nacl support with separate code segments. -11. Improve macos support. -12. Improve arm support. -13. Improve microblaze support. -14. Improve mips support. -15. Improve ppc support. -16. Improve sparc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1110. -2. Support new Linux NOTE sections. -3. Add -z stacksize=SIZE option to ld to set size of stack segment. -4. Fix a BFD IOVEC close bug. PR 14813. -5. Fix a BFD IOVEC on archive bug. PR 14567. -6. Fix archive support for non-ELF targets. PR 14481. -7. Improve gold. -8. Improve COFF support. -9. Improve arm support. -10. Improve microblaze support. -11. Improve mips support. -12. Improve ppc support. -13. Improve rx support. -14. Improve s390 support. -15. Improve v850 support. -16. Improve xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1026. -2. Fix an LTO linker bug. PR 14747. -3. Add cx16 arch feature to x86 assembler. -4. Add -march=bdver3 option to x86 assembler. -5. Properly handle ignored REX prefix with fwait in x86 disassembler. -6. Fix x32 register names in objdump DWARF output. -7. Add NT_SIGINFO/NT_FILE support to readelf. -8. Add linker --ignore-unresolved-symbol option from NetBSD. -9. Treat .gdb_index section as debug section. PR 14662. -10. Add --debug-dump=addr, --debug_dump=cu_index options to readelf and -objdump. -11. Add dwp, DWARF packaging utility. -12. Add compressed debug section support to Windows. PR 14067. -13. Improve gold. -14. Improve aarch64 support. -15. Improve arm support. -16. Improve hppa support. -17. Improve mips support. -18. Improve s390 support. -19. Improve tile support. -20. Improve v850 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0918. -2. Properly handle versioned STB_SECONDARY symbols. -3. Fix wrong symbol type with common symbol and weak function. PR 14591. -4. Ignore discarded sections when converting mov to lea. -5. Improve gold. -6. Improve avr support. -7. Improve aarch64 support. -8. Improve moxie support. -9. Improve ppc support. -10. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0908. -2. Fix STB_SECONDARY support: - a. Generate STB_SECONDARY symbols in DSO by default. - b. Properly handle STB_SECONDAY symbols when linking with archive. - c. Don't allow .weak directive to override .secondary directive. -3. Optimize i386/x86-64 linker to convert GOT load (MOV) to LEA. -4. Clarify x86 assembler error messages. PR 14457. -5. Improve NOP/prefetch support in x86 disassembler. -6. Improve Intel syntax support in x86 assembler. -7. Add -march={btver1, btver2} options to x86 assembler. -8. Fix binutils build with --enable-shared. PR 4970. -9. Also provide __executable_start for PIE. PR 14525. -10. Use xmalloc to allocate memory for argument list file. PR 14526. -11. Add Intel Itanium Series 9500 support to assembler/diassembler. -12. Ignore section symbols without a BFD section when outputing symbols -and check bad section index. PR 14493. -13. Improve archive reader. PR 14475. -14. Support DW_OP_GNU_const_index reader. -15. Improve handling of imput files with empty ELF group sections. -PR 14444. -16. Fix IFUNC support in s390 linker. -17. Improve gold. -18. Add aarch64 support. -19. Improve arm support. -20. Improve mips support. -21. Improve mmix support. -22. Improve moxie support. -23. Improve ppc support. -24. Improve s390 support. -25. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0806. -2. Add Intel ADX, RDSEED and PRFCHW new instruction support. -3. Support 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax in x86 assembler. -4. Mark 256-bit vmovntdqa as AVX2 instruction for x86 assembler. -5. Improve x86 assembler error handling. -6. Improve the repeat directive support in assembler. PR 14201. -7. Improve x86-64 disassembler on superfluous prefixes. -8. Fix x86 disassembler crash on bad XOP instructions. PR 14355. -9. Support STB_SECONDARY: - -https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/generic-abi - -10. Added SORT_NONE to the linker script language to disable section -sorting and properly handle .init/.fini sections. PR 14156. -11. Fix a weak alias linker bug. PR 14323. -12. Fix the NULL GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14207. -13. Fix the bad GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14215. -14. Add linker support of __ehdr_start symbol for the ELF file header. -15. Add IFUNC support to s390 linker. -16. Fix ar for >4GB member. PR 14302. -17. Fix objcopy --compress-debug-sections on empty debug section. PR -14319. -18. Fix readelf/objdup to display null bytes in DWARF debug info. PR -14420. -19. Improve gold. -20. Improve arm support. -21. Improve avr support. -22. Improve cris support. -23. Improve m68k support. -24. Improve mips support. -25. Improve ppc support. -26. Improve vax support. -27. Improve xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0604. -2. Check addend overflow for R_X86_64_RELATIVE64. -3. Fix ar/nm/ranlib with --plugin. -4. Create .eh_frame_hdr section only if needed. PR 13909. -5. Properly create .eh_frame section for PLT. PR 14105. -6. Fix a linker crash. PR 14170. -7. Fix readelf to properly display addend. -8. Don't make _DYNAMIC/_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_/_PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ -symbols absolute for x86 and ppc. -9. Properly handle shared libraries with zero dynamic symbols. PRs -7023/13962. -10. Update readelf/assembler to support multibyte characters in symbol -names. -11. Add --strip-dwo/--extract-dwo options to objcopy/strip. -12. Add R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 support to gold. -13. Improve gold. -14. Improve NACL support. -15. Improve alpha support. -16. Improve avr support. -17. Improve m68k support. -18. Improve mips support. -19. Improve ppc support. -20. Improve vax support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0507. -2. Fix Linux kernel build by reverting the PR 13621 fix. PR 14052. -3. Add support for x86_64-*-linux-gnux32 target. -4. Improve x86 assembler. -5. Improve DWARF support. -6. Improve gold. -7. Improve rx support. -8. Improve sparc support. -9. Add xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0424. -2. Support Intel HLE and RTM extension. -3. Add NACL support. -4. Fix -Bsymbolic with protected function pointer. PR 13880. -5. Fix an IFUNC regression. PR 13817. -6. Fix x86 NOP fill regression. PR 13675. -7. Fix a linker regression. PR 13991. -8. Fix dangling global hidden symbol in symtab. PR 13621. -9. Fix objcopy, strip and ld for --emit-relocs. PR 13947. -10. Improve gold. -11. Improve mach support. -12. Improve vms support. -13. Improve windows support. -14. Improve arm support. -15. Improve avr support. -16. Improve mips support. -17. Improve ppc support. -18. Improve rx support. -19. Improve s390 support. -20. Improve sh support. -21. Improve sparc support. -22. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0131. -2. Add x32 support to gold. -3. Support linker arch-depedent fill. PR 13616. -4. Add i386 NACL support to x86 assembler. -5. Add fake zero displacement for .d8 and .d32 suffixes to x86 assembler. -6. Add vmfunc support to x86 assembler/disassembler. -7. Support >2GB archive member. PR 13534. -8. Support R_X86_64_PC32 relocation for PIC on x32. PR 13581. -9. Fix LTO linker with --start-group and archive. PR 12758. -10. Fix linker with --build-id. PR 12451. -11. Improve linker dead code dependency removal on DSO. PR 12772. -12. Improve demangler. -13. Fix elf64-x86-64.c build with GCC 4.7. -14. Avoid linker -z text crash. PR 13468. -15. Avoid readelf crash. PR 13622. -16. Avoid nm crash on --size-sort --no-sort. PR 13593. -17. Fix linker COFF SECREL32 relocation support. PR 13491. -18. Improve gold. -19. Improve mach support. -20. Improve arm support. -21. Improve avr support. -22. Improve hppa support. -23. Improve m68k support. -24. Improve mips support. -25. Improve ppc support. -26. Improve rl78 support. -27. Improve rx support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 1118. -2. Fix ar --plugin on archive with mixed IR/non-IR objects. PR 13298. -3. Preserve the maximum alignment and size for common symbols. PR 13250. -4. Fix LTO linker with -as-needed. PR 13287. -5. Fix --plugin support on thin archive. PR 13257. -6. Fix LTO linker on thin archive. PR 13183. -7. Fix --plugin slim object support on archive. PR 13278. -8. Support LDPR_PREVAILING_DEF_IRONLY_EXP in linker plugin. PR 13229. -9. Don't make make IR symbols dynamic. PR 13244. -10. Fix LTO linker with --as-needed. PR 13201. -11. Properly handle 2 IR symbols with the same comdat key. PR 13066. -12. Keep .debug_types sections with linker garbage collection. PR 13233. -13. Fix -ffunction-sections -Wl,--gc-sections failure with symbol -versioning. PR 13195. -14. Improve linker garbage collection support. PR 13177. -15. Remove symbols hidden by version scripts with --gc-sections. PR 12975. -16. Remove unnecessary GOT relocation created for IFUNC. PR 13178. -17. Move IRELATIVE relocations to the end. PR 13302. -18. Avoid readelf core dump. PR 13219. -19. Check zero address size when dumping DWARF sections. PR 13196. -20. Remove the group section if all members are removed. PR 13180. -21. Support R_X86_64_64 and R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 relocations for x32. -PR 13082. -22. Add Adapteva Epiphany support. -23. Add Renesas RL78 support. -24. Improve gold. -25. Improve mach-o support. -26. Improve alpha support. -27. Improve arm support. -28. Improve hppa support. -29. Improve mips support. -30. Improve ppc support. -31. Improve rx support. -32. Improve sparc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0804. -2. Add Intel K1OM support. -3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocation for x32 and check x32 relocation overflow. -PR ld/13048. -4. Support direct call in x86-64 assembly code. PR gas/13046. -5. Add ia32 Google Native Client support. -6. Add .debug_macro section support. -7. Improve gold. -8. Improve VMS support. -9. Improve arm support. -10. Improve hppa support. -11. Improve mips support. -12. Improve mmix support. -13. Improve ppc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0716. -2. Fix LTO linker bugs. PRs 12982/12942. -3. Fix rorx support in x86 assembler/disassembler for AVX Programming -Reference (June, 2011). -4. Fix an x86-64 ELFOSABI linker regression. -5. Update ELFOSABI_GNU support. PR 12913. -6. Fix a linker regression with prelink support. PR 12921. -7. Add unwind info to x86 PLT section. PR 12570. -8. Support x32 core files. -9. Support native x32 linker. -10. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851. -11. Avoid linker crash on bad input. PR 12887. -12. Add section flags in linker script. -13. Improve elf linker -z option support. -14. Fix nm on compressed debug sections. PR 12983. -15. Fix an ar bug. PR 12558. -16. Fix an ia64 linker regression. PR 12978. -17. Improve gold. -18. Improve VMS support. -19. Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support. -20. Improve alpha support. -21. Improve avr support. -22. Improve mips support. -23. Improve arm support. -24. Improve ppc support. -25. Improve sh support. -26. Improve TIC6X support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0610. -2. Support AVX Programming Reference (June, 2011) -3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocations in SEC_DEBUGGING sections when building -x32 shared libraries. Used to build kernel x32 vDSO. -4. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851. -5. Update readelf to handle binaries containing corrupt version -information. PR 12855. -6. Improve gold. -7. Improve VMS support. -8. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.9: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0608. -2. Fix an x86 linker regression. PRs 12833/12837/12859. -3. Fix an x86-64 large model TLS linker bug. PR 12809. -4. Fix LTO bugs. PRs 12758/12760. -5. Add a new linker switch, -plugin-save-temps. -6. Fix an linker bug for warning on common symbol in archive. -7. Fix warning support when building shared library. PR 12761. -8. Reduce linker memory usage when linking many small object files. -PR 12682. -9. Fix a thin archive bug. PR 12710. -10. Fix a TLS linker bug. PR 12763. -11. Improve gold. -12. Improve DWARF dump support. -13. Improve XCOFF support. -14. Improve arm support. -15. Improve cris support. -16. Improve ia64 ILP32 support. -17. Improve mips support. -18. Improve ppc support. -19. Improve rx support. -20. Improve s390 support. -21. Improve tic30 support. -22. Improve tic6x support. -23. Improve v850 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.8: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0507. -2. Improve LTO bfd linker. PRs 12365/12696/12672 -3. Fix a linker regression with constructor attribute in C++. PR 12730. -4. Warn relocation in readonly section when creating a shared object. -5. Remove empty output sections. PR 12718. -6. Remove DT_TEXTREL with local IFUNC symbols. PR 12694. -7. Properly set ELFOSABI_LINUX for STB_GNU_UNIQUE. PR 10549. -8. Fix objcopy on unusual input. PR 12632. -9. Fix an ar regression. PR 12720. -10 Avoid linker crash on bad linker input. -11. Fix a linker script regression. PR 12726. -12. Support new GNU DWARF extensions. -13. Initial support for SystemTap note sections. -14. Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump. -15. Disable 3dnow and 3dnowa for bdver1 in x86 assembler. -16. Improve gold. -17. Improve VMS support. -18. Improve arm support. -19. Improve mips support. -20. Improve ppc support. -21. Improve s390 support. -22. Improve tic6x support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.7: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0408. -2. Fix x32 TLS linker bug. -3. Enable .quad directive in x32 assembler. -4. Fix an assembler regression. PRs 12569/12589. -5. Add --size-check= assembler option to issue a warning, instead of an -error, on bad ELF .size directive. -6. Fix an ia32 linker bug with TLS/PIE. PR 12654. -7. Fix Intel L1OM linker library search path. -8. Fix a linker buffer overflow on malformed inputs. PR 12613. -9. Check corrupted symtab in nm/readelf. PR 12639. -10. Avoid objcopy crash on archive with unknown objects. PR 12632. -11. Fix "ar -t". PR 12590. -12. Fix many memory leaks. -13. Improve DWARF support. -14. Improve gold. -15. Improve VMS support. -16. Improve Windows support. -17. Improve alpha support. -18. Improve arm support. -19. Improve avr support. -20. Improve ppc support. -21. Improve sparc support. -22. Improve tic6x support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0306. -2. Supprt x32 TLS IE->LE transition. -3. Change x32 library directory from /lib32 to /libx32. -4. Improve LTO linker support. Fix PRs 12439/12314/12248/12430. -5. Improve linker plugin support. -6. Fix an ar bug. PR 12513. -7. Properly generate nops for ia32. PR 6957. -8. Improve readelf DT_GNU_HASH support. PR 12523. -9. Improve readelf on invalid input. PR 12467. -10. Update ELF assembler to issue an error on invalid .size directive. -PR 12519, -11. Properly handle PT_DYNAMIC segment with zero size sections. PR 12516. -12. Add a new linker option, --verbose=2, to report plugin symbol -status. -13. Properly handle entry symbols in linker LTO support. PR 12507. -14. Improve gold. -15. Improve arm support. -16. Improve bfin support. -17. Improve mips support. -18. Improve ppc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0118. -2. Fix x32 (ILP32) support. Renamed assembler option to --x32. It -can create working static and dynamic x32 executables. -3. Add BMI and TBM new instruction support. -4. Fix x86 disassembler to properly display sign-extended byte. -5. Improve IFUNC linker support. PRs 12366/12371. -6. Fix readelf bug on archive. PR 12408. -7. Fix a assembler when compressing empty debug sections. PR 12409. -8. Fix a warning symbol linker bug. PR 12339. -9. Fix a duplicated assert message linker bug. PR 12380. -10. Fix plugin linker build. PR 12391. -11. Fix a plugin linker crash. PR 12364. -12. Improve plugin linker. -13. Improve gold. -14. Improve arm support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve rx support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0104. -2. Add ILP32 support: - -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ilp32/abi.pdf - -to Linux/x86-64. -3. Prevent the Linux x86-64 kernel build failure and remove -__ld_compatibility support. PR 12356. -4. Improve gold. -5. Improve Windows support. -6. Improve hppa support. -7. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1217. -2. Fix the Linux relocatable kernel build. PR 12327. -3. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1215. -2. Add BFD linker support for placing input .ctors/.dtors sections in -output .init_array/.fini_array section. Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY. The -benefits are - a. Avoid output .ctors/.dtors section in executables and shared - libraries. - b. Allow mixing input .ctors/.dtors sections with input - .init_array/.fini_array sectiobs. GCC PR 46770. -3. Add BFD linker support for "ld -r" on mixed IR/non-IR objects. Add -the new ELF section type SHT_GNU_OBJECT_ONLY (0x6ffffff8). See - -http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12291 - -4. Update BFD linker to accept -flto and -flto-partition= for GCC LTO -option compatibility. -5. Fix BFD linker to avoid touching uncompressed section content when -relocating DWARF debug sections for errror reporting. -6. Mark .gnu.lto_* sections with SHF_EXCLUDE. -7. Add --target option to ar. -8. Improve gold. -9. Improve AIX support. -10. Improve Windows support. -11. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1206. -2. Fix BFD and GOLD linker for compressed debug section support. -3. Fix BFD linker plugin support. PR ld/12246, ld/12247, ld/12248, -ld/12277, ld/12288 and ld/12289. -4. Update BFD linker to group .text.exit, text.startup and .text.hot -sections. -5. Fix linker for W_EH_PE_datarel handling. PR ld/12253. -6. Fix array access bug in readelf/elfedit. PR binutils/11742 and -binutils/12235. -7. Support dumping GDB .gdb_index section. -8. Install plugin-api.h. -9. Improve gold. -10. Improve Solaris support. -11. Improve VMS support. -12. Improve Windows support. -13. Improve arm support. -14. Improve bfin support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve s390 support. -17. Improve z80 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.12: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1110. -2. Fix ld plugin support. PRs lto/46291 and lto/46319. -3. Fix x86 assembler to properly fold _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ in Intel -syntax. PR 12186. -4. Update assembler to ensure that group signature symbols have the name -of the group. -5. Avoid unnecessary relaxation in assembler. PR 12049. -6. Update linker NOLOAD processing. -7. Update linker not to include archive members when symbols therein have -already been defined. PR 12001. -8. Change objdump to display compressed section names without 'z'. -9. Improve gold. -10. Improve Solaris support. -11. Improve VMS support. -12. Improve Windows support. -13. Improve arm support. -14. Improve cr16 support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve ppc support. -17. Improve tic6x support. - -The file list: - -1. binutils-2.23.52.0.1.tar.bz2. Source code. - -The primary sites for the beta Linux binutils are: - -1. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ - -It is also available on linux/release/2.23.52.0.1 branch at - -http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hjl/binutils.git;a=summary - -Thanks. - - -H.J. Lu -hjl.tools@gmail.com -02/27/2013 |