-*- text -*-
-Changes since version 2.4:
+Changes in version 2.10:
+
+* Added AT> to the linker script language to allow load-time allocation of
+ sections into regions.
+
+* Added garbage collection of unused sections, enabled by --gc-sections.
+ It does require a bit of backend support; currently implemented are
+ ppc-elf, mips-elf, and mn10300-elf. Others will ignore the option.
+
+* Added SORT to the linker script language to permit sorting sections by file
+ name or section name.
+
+* Added EXTERN to the linker script language as an equivalent to the -u
+ command-line option.
+
+* Added ASSERT to the linker script language.
+
+* Added EXCLUDE_FILE to the linker script language for further control over
+ wildcard file names.
+
+* Added -O option to optimize linker output (as of this writing, this only
+affects ELF shared library generation).
+
+* The -e option now accepts a number as well as a symbol name.
+
+* Added --no-undefined option to disallow undefined symbols when creating a
+ shared library.
+
+* The linker now issues a warning, not an error, for an undefined symbol when
+ using -Bsymbolic; use the new --no-undefined option to get the old
+ behaviour.
+
+* Added --demangle and --no-demangle options.
+
+Changes in version 2.9:
+
+* Added SQUAD to the linker script language.
+
+* New option --no-warn-mismatch.
+
+* The MEMORY command now parses the attributes to determine where sections that
+ are not placed in a specific memory region are placed.
+
+Changes in version 2.8:
+
+* Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section
+ names.
+
+* The linker now supports symbol versions in ELF.
+
+* The NOCROSSREFS command was added to the linker script language.
+
+* The LOADADDR expression was added to the linker script language.
+
+* MAX and MIN functions were added to the linker script language.
+
+* The OVERLAY construct was added to the linker script language.
+
+* New option --warn-section-align to warn when the address of an output section
+ changes due to alignment of an input section.
+
+* New options --filter/-F and --auxiliary/-f.
+
+Changes in version 2.7:
+
+* New option --cref to print out a cross reference table.
+
+* New option --wrap SYMBOL.
+
+* New option --no-whole-archive, to turn off the effect of --whole-archive.
+
+* Input sections assigned to the output section /DISCARD/ in the linker script
+ are not included in the output file.
+
+* The SunOS and ELF linkers now merge stabs debugging information which uses
+ the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types. This reduces the amount of debugging
+ information generated.
+
+Changes in version 2.6:
+
+* When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true
+of most ELF section names), the linker will automatically define symbols
+__start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the section name, at the
+beginning and the end of the section. This is used by glibc.
+
+* When an ELF section named .gnu.warning is encountered in an input file, the
+contents of the section are displayed as an error message, and the section is
+not copied into the output file. This is used by glibc.
+
+* When an ELF section named .gnu.warning.SYMBOL is encountered in an input
+file, and the symbol SYMBOL is referenced by some object file, the contents of
+the section are displayed as an error message. The section is not copied into
+the output file, unless doing a relocateable or shared link. This is used by
+glibc.
+
+* New options -split-by-reloc and -split-by-file.
+
+* The linker now supports linking PIC compiled code on SPARC SunOS. It can
+also create SPARC SunOS shared libraries, and, like the native SunOS linker,
+will do so whenever there is an undefined symbol in the link and neither the -e
+nor the -r option was used.
+
+* The -rpath option may be used on SunOS to set the list of directories to be
+searched at run time. This overrides the default of building the list from the
+-L options.
+
+* The COFF linker now combines debugging information for structs, unions, and
+enums, so that even if the same type is defined in multiple input files it will
+only be defined once in the output file. The --traditional-format switch will
+prevent this optimization.
+
+Changes in version 2.5:
* The linker now supports linking against SunOS shared libraries. It still can
not link SunOS PIC (Position Independent Code) files, so it can not be used to
Linux a.out shared libraries. The linker produces Linux QMAGIC binaries.
* The ELF backend has been converted to the new linker code. To use the new
-ELF linker, each particular targets requires a relocation function. So far,
-this function has been written for i386 (UnixWare), SPARC (Solaris) and MIPS
-(Irix 5) targets.
+ELF linker, each particular target requires a relocation function. So far,
+this function has been written for i386 (UnixWare), SPARC (Solaris) MIPS (Irix
+5), and HPPA ELF targets.
* The -( (--start-group) and -) (--end-group) options have been added to
support searching a group of archives as though they were a single archive.
* The -warn-once option was added. It causes the linker to only warn once per
undefined symbol, rather than once per reference.
-Changes since version 2.3:
+* The COFF backend has been converted to the new linker code. As with ELF, to
+use the new linker, each particular target requires a relocation function. So
+far, this function has been written for the i386, m68k, a29k and SH targets.
+
+* The -V flag was made a synonym for -v, for SVR4 compatibility. The old -V
+behaviour is available via --verbose.
+
+Changes in version 2.4:
* New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor. For a.out and ecoff
formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time
forgot to note it.) Some of their C library routines don't work when
statically linked, and the GNU linker doesn't support dynamic linking yet.
-Changes since version 2.2:
+Changes in version 2.3:
* Weak symbols are now supported.
* Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
-Changes since version 2.1:
+Changes in version 2.2:
* The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string
table size. The effect of this is that files linked from many input
files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical
static symbols) should be much smaller.
-Changes since version 2.0:
+Changes in version 2.1:
* The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.