* Makefile.in (earmsymbian.c): Depend on armbpabi.sc, not elf.sc.

[binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / NEWS

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@@ -1,5 +1,52 @@
 -*- text -*-
 
+* nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of
+  symbols which the target considers to be special.  By default these symbols
+  are no longer displayed.  Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping
+  symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and
+  between ARM and THUMB code.
+
+* dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional
+  import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them.
+
+Changes in 2.15:
+
+* objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on
+  the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them.
+
+* readelf can now parse archives.
+
+* objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a
+  format compatible with ctags tool.
+
+* objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing
+  those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug.  The idea is that
+  this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create
+  a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the
+  debugging info.
+
+* objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink
+  section into a (presumably stripped) executable.  This allows the debug
+  information for the file to be held in a separate file.
+  
+* BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX
+  single-character representation.  This can be checked by running nm
+  with the -a switch.
+
+Changes in 2.14:
+
+* Added --info switch to objcopy and strip.
+
+* Support for Vitesse IQ2000 added by Red Hat.
+
+* Added 'S' encoding to strings to allow the display of 8-bit characters.
+
+* Added --prefix-symbols=<text>, --prefix-sections=<text> and
+  --prefix-alloc-sections=<text> to objcopy.
+
+* readelf can handle the extensions to the DWARF2 spec used by the Unified
+  Parallel C compiler.
+
 * BFD no longer declares a "boolean" type, to avoid clashes with other
   headers that declare the same.  Users of BFD should replace boolean,
   false and true, with int, 0 and 1, or define their own boolean type.
@@ -161,7 +208,7 @@ Changes in binutils 2.6:
 Changes in binutils 2.5:
 
 * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly
-  listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files.
+  listing, for a more useful listing of relocatable files.
 
 * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections.
   Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections.