X-Git-Url: https://git.libre-soc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=binutils%2FNEWS;h=92f894dc071e39fe1dc54d1060f7e6792f8f94c7;hb=b8edc417a7143d28618086f1d6d946201001a075;hp=744b83b06d9005fab50d54b14ad6cd8f50b23a46;hpb=d974e256612f0886ab921d86345dace103c2e7ed;p=binutils-gdb.git diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index 744b83b06d9..92f894dc071 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,237 @@ -*- text -*- +* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family. + +* Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using + the -u / --unwind option. + +* Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table. + +* A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format + binaries. + +* Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by + '== ' option. + +* Add a new command line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the + address before function name or source filename. + +* Add a new command line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have + a more human readable output. + +Changes in 2.20: + +* Add support for delay importing to dlltool. Use the --output-delaylib + switch to create a delay-import library. The resulting app will load the dll + as soon as the first function is called. It will link to __delayLoadHelper2() + from the static delayimp library, which will import LoadLibraryA and + GetProcAddress from kernel32. + +* Add a new command line option, --insn-width=WIDTH, to objdump to specify + number of bytes to be displayed on a single line when disassembling + instructions. + +* Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence + of bytes via the --relocated-dump= command line option. + +* The gprof program has been given a new command line option: + --external-symbols-table= which reads in symbols from a specified + file. + +* The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects + used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats. + +* The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format + for objcopy. + +* Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base, --section-alignment, + --stack and --subsystem command line options to objcopy, which will + set PE optional header. + +* Option --dwarf/-W of objdump is now as flexible as readelf --debug-dump/-w. + +* --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined + symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries. In the + latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED + entry of one of the libraries already linked. + +* Added --prefix=PREFIX and --prefix-strip=LEVEL switches to objdump to + add absolute paths for -S. + +* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall- + back to old import table generation with null element prefix. + +* Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify to + report an error when the import library is associated with + multiple DLLs. + +* Added --identify option to dlltool, which determines the + name of the DLL associated with the specified . + +* Support for PowerPC booke64 instructions has been removed. The assembler no + longer accepts -mbooke32 or -mbooke64 and the disassembler no longer accepts + -Mbooke32 or -Mbooke64. Instead, -mbooke and -Mbooke should be used. + +Changes in 2.19: + +* Added -wL switch to dump decoded contents of .debug_line. + +* Added support for "thin" archives which contain pathnames pointing to + object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a + flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been + added to the archive. + +* Added -F switch to objdump to include file offsets in the disassembly. + +* Added -c switch to readelf to allow string dumps of archive symbol index. + +* Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port. + +* Added -p switch to readelf to allow string dumps of sections. + +Changes in 2.18: + +* Resolved 37 coding problems in bfd including static array overruns, null + pointer dereferences and use of a malloc buffer after it has been freed, as + revealed by static analysis donated by Coverity, Inc. (http://scan.coverity.com). + +* The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU General + Public License. + +* A new tool "windmc" has been added for some targets. This is a message + compiler which attempts to be compatible with the MS version. + +* Add codepage support to the windres tool. It now supports many new + resource types (e.g. MANIFEST, TOOLBAR, etc). The output generation + for binary files is done now via bfd itself. The endianess problems + for different hosts are solved. Dumps of .res files can now be + re-compiled by windres without lossing resources or compilation errors. + Some problems on dialog resource translations are corrected. + +* Add --extract-symbol command line option to objcopy, which will + strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except + for its symbol table. Files containing just symbols can be useful + to some OSes. + +Changes in 2.17: + +* Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER". + +* Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation + specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling + of types. + +* Add support for the "@" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so + that extra switches can be read from . + +* Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF + debug sections. + +* Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details. + "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated. + +* powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security + conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all + code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT + and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt. + +* Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information + for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function. + +* Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name. + +* Add "-M entry:" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address + when disassembling VAX binaries. + +* Add "--globalize-symbol " and "--globalize-symbols " switches + to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols. + +* gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for + several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint. + +Changes in 2.16: + +* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups. + +* objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and + --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard + matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but + retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations. + +* readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections. This + happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered. The + command line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display + the contents of the .debug_range section. + +* 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 " to generate additional + import and export symbols with prepended to them. + +Changes in 2.15: + +* objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the + disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some + pseudo instruction name. I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move", + "sll" instead of "nop", etc. + +* 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= 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=, --prefix-sections= and + --prefix-alloc-sections= 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. + +* Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov. + +Changes in 2.13: + +* Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400 + and FR500 included. + +Changes in version 2.12: + +* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson. + +* size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only). + * readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing lines to fit into 80 columns. @@ -34,7 +266,7 @@ Changes in binutils 2.11: * Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy. By Luciano Gemme. - + * Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander. * Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt. @@ -47,13 +279,13 @@ Changes in binutils 2.10: * New command line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given - file. + file. * New command line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or raw verions. - + * objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed with intel syntax. @@ -144,7 +376,7 @@ 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.