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Diffstat (limited to 'gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/NEWS')
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1 files changed, 52 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/NEWS b/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/NEWS index 70d3b96de0a..2c2340f385e 100644 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/ld/NEWS +++ 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. |