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Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/binutils/ld/NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/binutils/ld/NEWS | 30 |
1 files changed, 28 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/binutils/ld/NEWS b/contrib/binutils/ld/NEWS index 9506201..f1e7ece 100644 --- a/contrib/binutils/ld/NEWS +++ b/contrib/binutils/ld/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,31 @@ -*- text -*- +* Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs. + +* Support added for eliminating duplicate DWARF2 debug information by + having the compiler generate the information in sections called + .gnu.linkonce.wi.XXXX where XXXX is a checksum for the contents. The + linker then merges these sections together into the normal .debug_info + section. + +* The native ELF linker now searches the directories in DT_RUNPATH or + DT_RPATH of a shared library for shared libraries needed by it. + +* TI C54x support, by Timothy Wall. + +* Added command line switch --section-start to set the start address of any + specified section. + +* Added ability to emit full relocation information in linked executables, + enabled by --emit-relocs. Some post-linkage optimization tools need + this information in order to be able to correctly identify and perform + symbol relative addressing in the event of changes in section contents + (instructions being added or deleted, extending data sections, etc.) + +* Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt (preliminary, alpha quality). + +* Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). + Changes in version 2.10: * Added AT> to the linker script language to allow load-time allocation of @@ -7,8 +33,8 @@ 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 - avr-elf, d10v-elf, fr30-elf, i386-elf, m32r-elf, m68k-elf, mcore-elf, - mips-elf, mn10300-elf, ppc-elf, sh-elf, sparc-elf, and v850-elf. + arm-elf, avr-elf, d10v-elf, fr30-elf, i386-elf, m32r-elf, m68k-elf, + mcore-elf, mips-elf, mn10300-elf, ppc-elf, sh-elf, sparc-elf, and v850-elf. Others will ignore the option. * Added SORT to the linker script language to permit sorting sections by file |
