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-This is the beta release of binutils 2.23.52.0.1 for Linux, which is
-based on binutils 2013 0226 in CVS on sourceware.org plus various
-changes. It is purely for Linux.
-
-All relevant patches in patches have been applied to the source tree.
-You can take a look at patches/README to see what have been applied and
-in what order they have been applied.
-
-Starting from the 2.23.52.0.1 release, when creating executables, BFD
-linker will issue an error for undefined weak reference which is
-defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED. Previously BFD linker
-will silently include the shared library from DT_NEEDED.
-
-Starting from the 2.21.51.0.3 release, you must remove .ctors/.dtors
-section sentinels when building glibc or other C run-time libraries.
-Otherwise, you will run into:
-
-http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12343
-
-Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, BFD linker has the working LTO
-plugin support. It can be used with GCC 4.5 and above. For GCC 4.5, you
-need to configure GCC with --enable-gold to enable LTO plugin support.
-
-Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, binutils fully supports compressed
-debug sections. However, compressed debug section isn't turned on by
-default in assembler. I am planning to turn it on for x86 assembler in
-the future release, which may lead to the Linux kernel bug messages like
-
-WARNING: lib/ts_kmp.o (.zdebug_aranges): unexpected non-allocatable section.
-
-But the resulting kernel works fine.
-
-Starting from the 2.20.51.0.4 release, no diffs against the previous
-release will be provided.
-
-You can enable both gold and bfd ld with --enable-gold=both. Gold will
-be installed as ld.gold and bfd ld will be installed as ld.bfd. By
-default, ld.bfd will be installed as ld. You can use the configure
-option, --enable-gold=both/gold to choose gold as the default linker,
-ld. IA-32 binary and X64_64 binary tar balls are configured with
---enable-gold=both/ld --enable-plugins --enable-threads.
-
-Starting from the 2.18.50.0.4 release, the x86 assembler no longer
-accepts
-
- fnstsw %eax
-
-fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax and the upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged.
-Please use
-
- fnstsw %ax
-
-Starting from the 2.17.50.0.4 release, the default output section LMA
-(load memory address) has changed for allocatable sections from being
-equal to VMA (virtual memory address), to keeping the difference between
-LMA and VMA the same as the previous output section in the same region.
-
-For
-
-.data.init_task : { *(.data.init_task) }
-
-LMA of .data.init_task section is equal to its VMA with the old linker.
-With the new linker, it depends on the previous output section. You
-can use
-
-.data.init_task : AT (ADDR(.data.init_task)) { *(.data.init_task) }
-
-to ensure that LMA of .data.init_task section is always equal to its
-VMA. The linker script in the older 2.6 x86-64 kernel depends on the
-old behavior. You can add AT (ADDR(section)) to force LMA of
-.data.init_task section equal to its VMA. It will work with both old
-and new linkers. The x86-64 kernel linker script in kernel 2.6.13 and
-above is OK.
-
-The new x86_64 assembler no longer accepts
-
- monitor %eax,%ecx,%edx
-
-You should use
-
- monitor %rax,%ecx,%edx
-
-or
- monitor
-
-which works with both old and new x86_64 assemblers. They should
-generate the same opcode.
-
-The new i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving
-between a segment register and a 32bit memory location, i.e.,
-
- movl (%eax),%ds
- movl %ds,(%eax)
-
-To generate instructions for moving between a segment register and a
-16bit memory location without the 16bit operand size prefix, 0x66,
-
- mov (%eax),%ds
- mov %ds,(%eax)
-
-should be used. It will work with both new and old assemblers. The
-assembler starting from 2.16.90.0.1 will also support
-
- movw (%eax),%ds
- movw %ds,(%eax)
-
-without the 0x66 prefix. Patches for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels are
-available at
-
-http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch
-http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch
-
-The ia64 assembler is now defaulted to tune for Itanium 2 processors.
-To build a kernel for Itanium 1 processors, you will need to add
-
-ifeq ($(CONFIG_ITANIUM),y)
- CFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1
- AFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1
-endif
-
-to arch/ia64/Makefile in your kernel source tree.
-
-Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.23.52.0.1 to
-hjl.tools@gmail.com
-
-and
-
-http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.9:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2013 0226.
-2. Add Intel SAMP new instruction support.
-3. Allow dynamic R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64
-relocations agaist TLS symbols.
-4. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only for definition. PR 15167.
-5. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only if symbol is defined in
-regular object. PR 15107.
-6. Don't add DT_NEEDED for references from the LTO IR input. PR 15146.
-7. When creating executables, BFD linker will issue an error for undefined
-weak reference which is defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED.
-PR 15149.
-8. Also trace symbol from the LTO IR input. PR 15141.
-9. Support stripping LTO IR sections. PR 15033.
-10. Don't allow a nested archive pointing to itself and don't generate
-bad archive. PR 15140.
-11. Fix objcopy segfault on non-ELF input. PR 14873.
-12. Update DWARF dump support.
-13. Improve gold.
-14. Add nios2 support.
-15. Improve mach support.
-16. Improve aarch64 support.
-17. Improve arm support.
-18. Improve avr support.
-19. Improve h8300 support.
-20. Improve meta support.
-21. Improve mips support.
-22. Improve ppc support.
-23. Improve rl78 support.
-24. Improve sparc support.
-25. Improve v850 support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.8:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2013 0118.
-2. Support R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64
-relocations.
-3. Fix x86 assembler for "xtrn@got -1". PR 15019.
-4. Don't generate old dtags with --enable-new-dtags.
-5. Add Meta support.
-6. Improve gold.
-7. Improve aarch64 support.
-8. Improve arm support.
-9. Improve cr16 support.
-10. Improve mips support.
-11. Improve ppc support.
-12. Improve v850 support.
-13. Improve xgate support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.7:
-
-1. Properly adjust h->plt.refcount. PR 14980.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.6:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 1218.
-2. Add missing R_*_IRELATIVE relocations. PR 14968.
-3. Remove unnecessary R_*_NONE relocations. PR 14956.
-4. Fix ar/ranlib on 32-bit filesystems. PR 14933.
-5. Fix a "Not enough room for program headers" linker bug. PR 14926.
-6. Support self-assignment in a linker script to convert symbols to
-absolute. PR 14962.
-7. Support --copy-dt-needed-entries when creating DSO. PR 14915.
-8. Improve linker plugin DSO error handling. PR 14904.
-9. Issue warning for plugin dummy. PR 12760.
-10. Add -fuse-ld=bfd|gold support to ld and gold.
-11. Fix gold configure. PR 14897.
-12. Correct gas dependency. PR 14899.
-13. Add rdos support.
-14. Improve gold.
-15. Improve nacl support.
-16. Improve aarch64 support.
-17. Improve arm support.
-18. Improve microblaze support.
-19. Improve mips support.
-20. Improve ppc support.
-21. Improve tile support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.5:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 1123.
-2. Fix 64-bit jecxz encoding regression in x86 assembler. PR 14859.
-3. Revert an accidental linker change. PR 14862.
-4. Fix x32 TLS LD to LE optimization in gold. PR 14858.
-5. Add "-z global" option to set DF_1_GLOBAL to ld.
-6. Improve ld plugin error handling.
-7. Port ld lib32 arrangement from Debian.
-8. Properly set the output maxpagesize when rewriting program header.
-PR 14493.
-9. Add additional DF_1_XXX support to readelf.
-10. Improve nacl support with separate code segments.
-11. Improve macos support.
-12. Improve arm support.
-13. Improve microblaze support.
-14. Improve mips support.
-15. Improve ppc support.
-16. Improve sparc support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 1110.
-2. Support new Linux NOTE sections.
-3. Add -z stacksize=SIZE option to ld to set size of stack segment.
-4. Fix a BFD IOVEC close bug. PR 14813.
-5. Fix a BFD IOVEC on archive bug. PR 14567.
-6. Fix archive support for non-ELF targets. PR 14481.
-7. Improve gold.
-8. Improve COFF support.
-9. Improve arm support.
-10. Improve microblaze support.
-11. Improve mips support.
-12. Improve ppc support.
-13. Improve rx support.
-14. Improve s390 support.
-15. Improve v850 support.
-16. Improve xgate support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 1026.
-2. Fix an LTO linker bug. PR 14747.
-3. Add cx16 arch feature to x86 assembler.
-4. Add -march=bdver3 option to x86 assembler.
-5. Properly handle ignored REX prefix with fwait in x86 disassembler.
-6. Fix x32 register names in objdump DWARF output.
-7. Add NT_SIGINFO/NT_FILE support to readelf.
-8. Add linker --ignore-unresolved-symbol option from NetBSD.
-9. Treat .gdb_index section as debug section. PR 14662.
-10. Add --debug-dump=addr, --debug_dump=cu_index options to readelf and
-objdump.
-11. Add dwp, DWARF packaging utility.
-12. Add compressed debug section support to Windows. PR 14067.
-13. Improve gold.
-14. Improve aarch64 support.
-15. Improve arm support.
-16. Improve hppa support.
-17. Improve mips support.
-18. Improve s390 support.
-19. Improve tile support.
-20. Improve v850 support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 0918.
-2. Properly handle versioned STB_SECONDARY symbols.
-3. Fix wrong symbol type with common symbol and weak function. PR 14591.
-4. Ignore discarded sections when converting mov to lea.
-5. Improve gold.
-6. Improve avr support.
-7. Improve aarch64 support.
-8. Improve moxie support.
-9. Improve ppc support.
-10. Improve tile support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 0908.
-2. Fix STB_SECONDARY support:
- a. Generate STB_SECONDARY symbols in DSO by default.
- b. Properly handle STB_SECONDAY symbols when linking with archive.
- c. Don't allow .weak directive to override .secondary directive.
-3. Optimize i386/x86-64 linker to convert GOT load (MOV) to LEA.
-4. Clarify x86 assembler error messages. PR 14457.
-5. Improve NOP/prefetch support in x86 disassembler.
-6. Improve Intel syntax support in x86 assembler.
-7. Add -march={btver1, btver2} options to x86 assembler.
-8. Fix binutils build with --enable-shared. PR 4970.
-9. Also provide __executable_start for PIE. PR 14525.
-10. Use xmalloc to allocate memory for argument list file. PR 14526.
-11. Add Intel Itanium Series 9500 support to assembler/diassembler.
-12. Ignore section symbols without a BFD section when outputing symbols
-and check bad section index. PR 14493.
-13. Improve archive reader. PR 14475.
-14. Support DW_OP_GNU_const_index reader.
-15. Improve handling of imput files with empty ELF group sections.
-PR 14444.
-16. Fix IFUNC support in s390 linker.
-17. Improve gold.
-18. Add aarch64 support.
-19. Improve arm support.
-20. Improve mips support.
-21. Improve mmix support.
-22. Improve moxie support.
-23. Improve ppc support.
-24. Improve s390 support.
-25. Improve tile support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 0806.
-2. Add Intel ADX, RDSEED and PRFCHW new instruction support.
-3. Support 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax in x86 assembler.
-4. Mark 256-bit vmovntdqa as AVX2 instruction for x86 assembler.
-5. Improve x86 assembler error handling.
-6. Improve the repeat directive support in assembler. PR 14201.
-7. Improve x86-64 disassembler on superfluous prefixes.
-8. Fix x86 disassembler crash on bad XOP instructions. PR 14355.
-9. Support STB_SECONDARY:
-
-https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/generic-abi
-
-10. Added SORT_NONE to the linker script language to disable section
-sorting and properly handle .init/.fini sections. PR 14156.
-11. Fix a weak alias linker bug. PR 14323.
-12. Fix the NULL GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14207.
-13. Fix the bad GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14215.
-14. Add linker support of __ehdr_start symbol for the ELF file header.
-15. Add IFUNC support to s390 linker.
-16. Fix ar for >4GB member. PR 14302.
-17. Fix objcopy --compress-debug-sections on empty debug section. PR
-14319.
-18. Fix readelf/objdup to display null bytes in DWARF debug info. PR
-14420.
-19. Improve gold.
-20. Improve arm support.
-21. Improve avr support.
-22. Improve cris support.
-23. Improve m68k support.
-24. Improve mips support.
-25. Improve ppc support.
-26. Improve vax support.
-27. Improve xgate support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 0604.
-2. Check addend overflow for R_X86_64_RELATIVE64.
-3. Fix ar/nm/ranlib with --plugin.
-4. Create .eh_frame_hdr section only if needed. PR 13909.
-5. Properly create .eh_frame section for PLT. PR 14105.
-6. Fix a linker crash. PR 14170.
-7. Fix readelf to properly display addend.
-8. Don't make _DYNAMIC/_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_/_PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_
-symbols absolute for x86 and ppc.
-9. Properly handle shared libraries with zero dynamic symbols. PRs
-7023/13962.
-10. Update readelf/assembler to support multibyte characters in symbol
-names.
-11. Add --strip-dwo/--extract-dwo options to objcopy/strip.
-12. Add R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 support to gold.
-13. Improve gold.
-14. Improve NACL support.
-15. Improve alpha support.
-16. Improve avr support.
-17. Improve m68k support.
-18. Improve mips support.
-19. Improve ppc support.
-20. Improve vax support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 0507.
-2. Fix Linux kernel build by reverting the PR 13621 fix. PR 14052.
-3. Add support for x86_64-*-linux-gnux32 target.
-4. Improve x86 assembler.
-5. Improve DWARF support.
-6. Improve gold.
-7. Improve rx support.
-8. Improve sparc support.
-9. Add xgate support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 0424.
-2. Support Intel HLE and RTM extension.
-3. Add NACL support.
-4. Fix -Bsymbolic with protected function pointer. PR 13880.
-5. Fix an IFUNC regression. PR 13817.
-6. Fix x86 NOP fill regression. PR 13675.
-7. Fix a linker regression. PR 13991.
-8. Fix dangling global hidden symbol in symtab. PR 13621.
-9. Fix objcopy, strip and ld for --emit-relocs. PR 13947.
-10. Improve gold.
-11. Improve mach support.
-12. Improve vms support.
-13. Improve windows support.
-14. Improve arm support.
-15. Improve avr support.
-16. Improve mips support.
-17. Improve ppc support.
-18. Improve rx support.
-19. Improve s390 support.
-20. Improve sh support.
-21. Improve sparc support.
-22. Improve tile support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.22.51.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2012 0131.
-2. Add x32 support to gold.
-3. Support linker arch-depedent fill. PR 13616.
-4. Add i386 NACL support to x86 assembler.
-5. Add fake zero displacement for .d8 and .d32 suffixes to x86 assembler.
-6. Add vmfunc support to x86 assembler/disassembler.
-7. Support >2GB archive member. PR 13534.
-8. Support R_X86_64_PC32 relocation for PIC on x32. PR 13581.
-9. Fix LTO linker with --start-group and archive. PR 12758.
-10. Fix linker with --build-id. PR 12451.
-11. Improve linker dead code dependency removal on DSO. PR 12772.
-12. Improve demangler.
-13. Fix elf64-x86-64.c build with GCC 4.7.
-14. Avoid linker -z text crash. PR 13468.
-15. Avoid readelf crash. PR 13622.
-16. Avoid nm crash on --size-sort --no-sort. PR 13593.
-17. Fix linker COFF SECREL32 relocation support. PR 13491.
-18. Improve gold.
-19. Improve mach support.
-20. Improve arm support.
-21. Improve avr support.
-22. Improve hppa support.
-23. Improve m68k support.
-24. Improve mips support.
-25. Improve ppc support.
-26. Improve rl78 support.
-27. Improve rx support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 1118.
-2. Fix ar --plugin on archive with mixed IR/non-IR objects. PR 13298.
-3. Preserve the maximum alignment and size for common symbols. PR 13250.
-4. Fix LTO linker with -as-needed. PR 13287.
-5. Fix --plugin support on thin archive. PR 13257.
-6. Fix LTO linker on thin archive. PR 13183.
-7. Fix --plugin slim object support on archive. PR 13278.
-8. Support LDPR_PREVAILING_DEF_IRONLY_EXP in linker plugin. PR 13229.
-9. Don't make make IR symbols dynamic. PR 13244.
-10. Fix LTO linker with --as-needed. PR 13201.
-11. Properly handle 2 IR symbols with the same comdat key. PR 13066.
-12. Keep .debug_types sections with linker garbage collection. PR 13233.
-13. Fix -ffunction-sections -Wl,--gc-sections failure with symbol
-versioning. PR 13195.
-14. Improve linker garbage collection support. PR 13177.
-15. Remove symbols hidden by version scripts with --gc-sections. PR 12975.
-16. Remove unnecessary GOT relocation created for IFUNC. PR 13178.
-17. Move IRELATIVE relocations to the end. PR 13302.
-18. Avoid readelf core dump. PR 13219.
-19. Check zero address size when dumping DWARF sections. PR 13196.
-20. Remove the group section if all members are removed. PR 13180.
-21. Support R_X86_64_64 and R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 relocations for x32.
-PR 13082.
-22. Add Adapteva Epiphany support.
-23. Add Renesas RL78 support.
-24. Improve gold.
-25. Improve mach-o support.
-26. Improve alpha support.
-27. Improve arm support.
-28. Improve hppa support.
-29. Improve mips support.
-30. Improve ppc support.
-31. Improve rx support.
-32. Improve sparc support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0804.
-2. Add Intel K1OM support.
-3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocation for x32 and check x32 relocation overflow.
-PR ld/13048.
-4. Support direct call in x86-64 assembly code. PR gas/13046.
-5. Add ia32 Google Native Client support.
-6. Add .debug_macro section support.
-7. Improve gold.
-8. Improve VMS support.
-9. Improve arm support.
-10. Improve hppa support.
-11. Improve mips support.
-12. Improve mmix support.
-13. Improve ppc support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0716.
-2. Fix LTO linker bugs. PRs 12982/12942.
-3. Fix rorx support in x86 assembler/disassembler for AVX Programming
-Reference (June, 2011).
-4. Fix an x86-64 ELFOSABI linker regression.
-5. Update ELFOSABI_GNU support. PR 12913.
-6. Fix a linker regression with prelink support. PR 12921.
-7. Add unwind info to x86 PLT section. PR 12570.
-8. Support x32 core files.
-9. Support native x32 linker.
-10. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851.
-11. Avoid linker crash on bad input. PR 12887.
-12. Add section flags in linker script.
-13. Improve elf linker -z option support.
-14. Fix nm on compressed debug sections. PR 12983.
-15. Fix an ar bug. PR 12558.
-16. Fix an ia64 linker regression. PR 12978.
-17. Improve gold.
-18. Improve VMS support.
-19. Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support.
-20. Improve alpha support.
-21. Improve avr support.
-22. Improve mips support.
-23. Improve arm support.
-24. Improve ppc support.
-25. Improve sh support.
-26. Improve TIC6X support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0610.
-2. Support AVX Programming Reference (June, 2011)
-3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocations in SEC_DEBUGGING sections when building
-x32 shared libraries. Used to build kernel x32 vDSO.
-4. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851.
-5. Update readelf to handle binaries containing corrupt version
-information. PR 12855.
-6. Improve gold.
-7. Improve VMS support.
-8. Improve mips support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.9:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0608.
-2. Fix an x86 linker regression. PRs 12833/12837/12859.
-3. Fix an x86-64 large model TLS linker bug. PR 12809.
-4. Fix LTO bugs. PRs 12758/12760.
-5. Add a new linker switch, -plugin-save-temps.
-6. Fix an linker bug for warning on common symbol in archive.
-7. Fix warning support when building shared library. PR 12761.
-8. Reduce linker memory usage when linking many small object files.
-PR 12682.
-9. Fix a thin archive bug. PR 12710.
-10. Fix a TLS linker bug. PR 12763.
-11. Improve gold.
-12. Improve DWARF dump support.
-13. Improve XCOFF support.
-14. Improve arm support.
-15. Improve cris support.
-16. Improve ia64 ILP32 support.
-17. Improve mips support.
-18. Improve ppc support.
-19. Improve rx support.
-20. Improve s390 support.
-21. Improve tic30 support.
-22. Improve tic6x support.
-23. Improve v850 support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.8:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0507.
-2. Improve LTO bfd linker. PRs 12365/12696/12672
-3. Fix a linker regression with constructor attribute in C++. PR 12730.
-4. Warn relocation in readonly section when creating a shared object.
-5. Remove empty output sections. PR 12718.
-6. Remove DT_TEXTREL with local IFUNC symbols. PR 12694.
-7. Properly set ELFOSABI_LINUX for STB_GNU_UNIQUE. PR 10549.
-8. Fix objcopy on unusual input. PR 12632.
-9. Fix an ar regression. PR 12720.
-10 Avoid linker crash on bad linker input.
-11. Fix a linker script regression. PR 12726.
-12. Support new GNU DWARF extensions.
-13. Initial support for SystemTap note sections.
-14. Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump.
-15. Disable 3dnow and 3dnowa for bdver1 in x86 assembler.
-16. Improve gold.
-17. Improve VMS support.
-18. Improve arm support.
-19. Improve mips support.
-20. Improve ppc support.
-21. Improve s390 support.
-22. Improve tic6x support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.7:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0408.
-2. Fix x32 TLS linker bug.
-3. Enable .quad directive in x32 assembler.
-4. Fix an assembler regression. PRs 12569/12589.
-5. Add --size-check= assembler option to issue a warning, instead of an
-error, on bad ELF .size directive.
-6. Fix an ia32 linker bug with TLS/PIE. PR 12654.
-7. Fix Intel L1OM linker library search path.
-8. Fix a linker buffer overflow on malformed inputs. PR 12613.
-9. Check corrupted symtab in nm/readelf. PR 12639.
-10. Avoid objcopy crash on archive with unknown objects. PR 12632.
-11. Fix "ar -t". PR 12590.
-12. Fix many memory leaks.
-13. Improve DWARF support.
-14. Improve gold.
-15. Improve VMS support.
-16. Improve Windows support.
-17. Improve alpha support.
-18. Improve arm support.
-19. Improve avr support.
-20. Improve ppc support.
-21. Improve sparc support.
-22. Improve tic6x support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.6:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0306.
-2. Supprt x32 TLS IE->LE transition.
-3. Change x32 library directory from /lib32 to /libx32.
-4. Improve LTO linker support. Fix PRs 12439/12314/12248/12430.
-5. Improve linker plugin support.
-6. Fix an ar bug. PR 12513.
-7. Properly generate nops for ia32. PR 6957.
-8. Improve readelf DT_GNU_HASH support. PR 12523.
-9. Improve readelf on invalid input. PR 12467.
-10. Update ELF assembler to issue an error on invalid .size directive.
-PR 12519,
-11. Properly handle PT_DYNAMIC segment with zero size sections. PR 12516.
-12. Add a new linker option, --verbose=2, to report plugin symbol
-status.
-13. Properly handle entry symbols in linker LTO support. PR 12507.
-14. Improve gold.
-15. Improve arm support.
-16. Improve bfin support.
-17. Improve mips support.
-18. Improve ppc support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.5:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0118.
-2. Fix x32 (ILP32) support. Renamed assembler option to --x32. It
-can create working static and dynamic x32 executables.
-3. Add BMI and TBM new instruction support.
-4. Fix x86 disassembler to properly display sign-extended byte.
-5. Improve IFUNC linker support. PRs 12366/12371.
-6. Fix readelf bug on archive. PR 12408.
-7. Fix a assembler when compressing empty debug sections. PR 12409.
-8. Fix a warning symbol linker bug. PR 12339.
-9. Fix a duplicated assert message linker bug. PR 12380.
-10. Fix plugin linker build. PR 12391.
-11. Fix a plugin linker crash. PR 12364.
-12. Improve plugin linker.
-13. Improve gold.
-14. Improve arm support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve rx support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2011 0104.
-2. Add ILP32 support:
-
-http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ilp32/abi.pdf
-
-to Linux/x86-64.
-3. Prevent the Linux x86-64 kernel build failure and remove
-__ld_compatibility support. PR 12356.
-4. Improve gold.
-5. Improve Windows support.
-6. Improve hppa support.
-7. Improve mips support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1217.
-2. Fix the Linux relocatable kernel build. PR 12327.
-3. Improve mips support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1215.
-2. Add BFD linker support for placing input .ctors/.dtors sections in
-output .init_array/.fini_array section. Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY. The
-benefits are
- a. Avoid output .ctors/.dtors section in executables and shared
- libraries.
- b. Allow mixing input .ctors/.dtors sections with input
- .init_array/.fini_array sectiobs. GCC PR 46770.
-3. Add BFD linker support for "ld -r" on mixed IR/non-IR objects. Add
-the new ELF section type SHT_GNU_OBJECT_ONLY (0x6ffffff8). See
-
-http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12291
-
-4. Update BFD linker to accept -flto and -flto-partition= for GCC LTO
-option compatibility.
-5. Fix BFD linker to avoid touching uncompressed section content when
-relocating DWARF debug sections for errror reporting.
-6. Mark .gnu.lto_* sections with SHF_EXCLUDE.
-7. Add --target option to ar.
-8. Improve gold.
-9. Improve AIX support.
-10. Improve Windows support.
-11. Improve mips support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1206.
-2. Fix BFD and GOLD linker for compressed debug section support.
-3. Fix BFD linker plugin support. PR ld/12246, ld/12247, ld/12248,
-ld/12277, ld/12288 and ld/12289.
-4. Update BFD linker to group .text.exit, text.startup and .text.hot
-sections.
-5. Fix linker for W_EH_PE_datarel handling. PR ld/12253.
-6. Fix array access bug in readelf/elfedit. PR binutils/11742 and
-binutils/12235.
-7. Support dumping GDB .gdb_index section.
-8. Install plugin-api.h.
-9. Improve gold.
-10. Improve Solaris support.
-11. Improve VMS support.
-12. Improve Windows support.
-13. Improve arm support.
-14. Improve bfin support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve s390 support.
-17. Improve z80 support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.12:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2010 1110.
-2. Fix ld plugin support. PRs lto/46291 and lto/46319.
-3. Fix x86 assembler to properly fold _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ in Intel
-syntax. PR 12186.
-4. Update assembler to ensure that group signature symbols have the name
-of the group.
-5. Avoid unnecessary relaxation in assembler. PR 12049.
-6. Update linker NOLOAD processing.
-7. Update linker not to include archive members when symbols therein have
-already been defined. PR 12001.
-8. Change objdump to display compressed section names without 'z'.
-9. Improve gold.
-10. Improve Solaris support.
-11. Improve VMS support.
-12. Improve Windows support.
-13. Improve arm support.
-14. Improve cr16 support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve ppc support.
-17. Improve tic6x support.
-
-The file list:
-
-1. binutils-2.23.52.0.1.tar.bz2. Source code.
-
-The primary sites for the beta Linux binutils are:
-
-1. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/
-
-It is also available on linux/release/2.23.52.0.1 branch at
-
-http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/hjl/binutils.git;a=summary
-
-Thanks.
-
-
-H.J. Lu
-hjl.tools@gmail.com
-02/27/2013