From 55311d1cf119bab3bf5d9c7c38fa7278776e82c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 21:43:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * binutils.texi (Target Selection): Document that you can now specify targets using configuration triplets. --- binutils/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ binutils/NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++ binutils/binutils.texi | 10 ++++++++++ 3 files changed, 31 insertions(+) diff --git a/binutils/ChangeLog b/binutils/ChangeLog index 7640a96fff5..4e22e3c869a 100644 --- a/binutils/ChangeLog +++ b/binutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +Thu Oct 3 17:41:23 1996 Ian Lance Taylor + + * binutils.texi (Target Selection): Document that you can now + specify targets using configuration triplets. + + * ar.c (usage): Declare. Make sure all callers pass an argument. + Thu Oct 3 15:39:42 1996 Jason Molenda (crash@godzilla.cygnus.co.jp) * Makefile.in (clean): Remove config.log. diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS index 7e0322cf2f7..6a5193f058e 100644 --- a/binutils/NEWS +++ b/binutils/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,13 @@ -*- text -*- +Changes since binutils 2.7 + +* Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets. For example, + objdump -b i386-pc-linux. The triplets are not passed through config.sub, + so they must be in canonical form. + +* Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy. + Changes since binutils 2.6 * Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure. @@ -12,6 +20,12 @@ Changes since binutils 2.6 * The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc. +* Added --line-numbers option to nm. + +* Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump. + +* Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP. + Changes since binutils 2.5 * Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy. diff --git a/binutils/binutils.texi b/binutils/binutils.texi index ff072afeaab..a1b6335ede6 100644 --- a/binutils/binutils.texi +++ b/binutils/binutils.texi @@ -1766,6 +1766,16 @@ The command to list valid target values is @samp{objdump -i} Some sample values are: @samp{a.out-hp300bsd}, @samp{ecoff-littlemips}, @samp{a.out-sunos-big}. +You can also specify a target using a configuration triplet. This is +the same sort of name that is passed to configure to specify a target. +When you use a configuration triplet as an argument, it must be fully +canonicalized. You can see the canonical version of a triplet by +running the shell script @file{config.sub} which is included with the +sources. + +Some sample configuration triplets are: @samp{m68k-hp-bsd}, +@samp{mips-dec-ultrix}, @samp{sparc-sun-sunos}. + @subheading @code{objdump} Target Ways to specify: -- 2.30.2