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+++ b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/NEWS
@@ -1,10 +1,52 @@
-*- text -*-
-Changes since version 2.7:
+Changes in version 2.10:
+
+* 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.
@@ -16,7 +58,9 @@ Changes since version 2.7:
* New option --warn-section-align to warn when the address of an output section
changes due to alignment of an input section.
-Changes since version 2.6:
+* New options --filter/-F and --auxiliary/-f.
+
+Changes in version 2.7:
* New option --cref to print out a cross reference table.
@@ -31,7 +75,7 @@ Changes since version 2.6:
the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types. This reduces the amount of debugging
information generated.
-Changes since version 2.5:
+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
@@ -64,7 +108,7 @@ 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 since version 2.4:
+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
@@ -103,7 +147,7 @@ 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 since version 2.3:
+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
@@ -127,7 +171,7 @@ Changes since version 2.3:
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.
@@ -136,14 +180,14 @@ Changes since version 2.2:
* 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.