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[binutils-gdb/users/hjl/linux/release/2.28.51.0.1] Remove release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2
- From: H.J.Lu <hjl at sourceware dot org>
- To: bfd-cvs at sourceware dot org, gdb-cvs at sourceware dot org
- Date: 11 Jul 2017 11:01:04 -0000
- Subject: [binutils-gdb/users/hjl/linux/release/2.28.51.0.1] Remove release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=b8cc0ceb40868b1d4d42854e4d89372aa5aef921
commit b8cc0ceb40868b1d4d42854e4d89372aa5aef921
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date: Tue Jul 11 03:54:20 2017 -0700
Remove release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2
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1 file changed, 1332 deletions(-)
diff --git a/release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2 b/release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2
deleted file mode 100644
index 4ca9d9f..0000000
--- a/release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,1332 +0,0 @@
-This is the beta release of binutils 2.26.51.0.2 for Linux, which is
-based on binutils 2016 0711 master branch 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 2.23.52.0.2 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 2.25.51.0.2 release, the x86 assembler will optimize
-out relocations against defined non-weak global branch targets with
-default visibility by default. This Linux kernel patch is needed to
-create a working x86 Linux kernel if it hasn't been updated to support
-the newer assembler:
-
-diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
-index ae6588b..b91a00c 100644
---- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
-+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S
-@@ -339,8 +339,8 @@ early_idt_handlers:
- i = i + 1
- .endr
-
--/* This is global to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */
--ENTRY(early_idt_handler)
-+/* This is weak to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */
-+WEAK(early_idt_handler)
- cld
-
- cmpl $2,(%rsp) # X86_TRAP_NMI
---
-
-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 2.26.51.0.2 to
-hjl.tools@gmail.com
-
-and
-
-http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/
-
-Changes from binutils 2.26.51.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2016 0711.
-2. Add support for Intel RDPID instructions.
-3. Add --enable-relro and make it the default for Linux targets.
-PR 20283.
-4. Make --enable-compressed-debug-sections=gas the default for
-Linux/x86 targets.
-5. Add --no-pad-sections option to gas.
-6. Add -z noreloc-overflow option to x86-64 ld. PR 19807.
-7. Speedup orphan placement for relocatable link. PR 19739.
-8. Fix .weakref directive with defined symbol. PR 19498.
-9. Fix assembler fegmentation fault on bad input. PR 19896.
-10. Set sh_entsize on .init_array, .fini_array and .preinit_array
-sections. PR 20118.
-11. Treat common symbol in executable as definition. PR 19579.
-12. Allow zero length archive elements. PR 19775.
-13. Fix an --as-needed ld regression. PR 19886.
-14. Don't create dynamic sections for relocatable output. PR 19789.
-15. Always count the NULL entry in dynamic symbol table.
-16. Handle symbols defined/referenced only within IR. PR 20070.
-17. Enable 64-bit archives in ar and ranlib. PR 14625.
-18. Improve symbol choice with objdump. PR 20337.
-19. Don't retrieve version info from synthetic symbols. PR 20304.
-20. Update objcopy to check corrupt binary. PRs 20089/20096.
-21. Check corrupt binary with invalid sh_link field. PR 20063.
-22. Strip global symbol defined in discarded section. PR 17550.
-23. Fix a linker crash with -shared --gc-sections -u. PR 20306.
-24. Properly handle dynamic reloc against normal symbol. PR 19939.
-25. Update ld to warn for duplicated plugin. PR 20321.
-26. Updated ld to use the IR symbol table for the IR input object. PRs
-18250/20267.
-27. Update ld to properly handle common symbol with LTO. PR 20276.
-28. Handle thin archives with LTO. PR 20241.
-29. Don't claim new IR symbols after all IR symbols have been claimed.
-PR 20103.
-30. Handle indirect branches for AMD64 and Intel64 in x86-64 assembler
-and disassembler. PR binutis/18386.
-31. Don't use vec_disp8 encoding with the .d32 suffix. PR 19909.
-32. Improve x86-64 disassembler. PRs 19983/19984.
-33. Improve ".arch .noXXX" directives in x86 assembler. PR 20145.
-34. Require another match for AVX512VL in x86 assembler. PR 20140.
-35. Enable VREX for AVX512 directives in x86 assembler. PR 20141.
-36. Preserve addend for R_386_GOT32 and R_X86_64_GOT32 in x86 assembler.
-PR 19600.
-37. Update ld to remove PLT entry for IFUNC function via GOT. PR 20253.
-38. Don't check undefined symbols for relocations against x86 IFUNC
-symbols.
-39. Update x86 ld to skip relocations in non-loaded, non-alloced sections.
-40. Update i386 ld to handle "op $imm, bar@GOT". PR 20244.
-41. Update x86 ld to support dynamic TLS models with indirect call.
-42. Properly override IFUNC symbols in executales. PRs 16467/20159.
-43. Don't convert R_386_GOT32 relocation. PR 20117.
-44. Don't convert GOTPCREL relocation against large section. PR 20093.
-45. Updated x86-64 ld to Skip debug sections when estimating distances.
-PR 20006.
-46. Check run-time R_X86_64_32 relocation overflow. PR 19969.
-47. Update x86 ld to check ELF relocs after opening all input files.
-48. Updated x86 ld to bind defined symbol locally in PIE. PR 19827.
-49. Updated x86 ld to handle local IFUNC symbols in shared object. PR
-19784.
-50. Improve gold support.
-51. Improve COFF support.
-52. Improve freebsd support.
-53. Improve Solaris support.
-54. Add dlx support.
-55. Improve arc support.
-56. Improve arm support.
-57. Improve avr support.
-58. Improve bfin upport.
-59. Improve ft32 support.
-60. Improve hppa support.
-61. Improve msp430 support.
-62. Improve mips support.
-63. Improve ppc support.
-64. Improve s390 support.
-65. Improve sparc support.
-66. Improve z8k support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2016 0226.
-2. Add support for Intel rdpkru and wrpkru instructions.
-3. Fix wrong GOT offset used with GOT relocation in i386 linker. PR
-19601.
-4. Fix AVX512 register number check in x86 assembler.
-5. Fix a segmentation fault with IFUNC in x86 linker. PR 19539.
-6. Optimize local symbol address load for x86 ld. PR 19609.
-7. Make behaviors of dynamic executable and position independent
-executable predictable with mixed PIC and non-PIC references to
-undefined weak symbols. Remove unused dynamic symbols. Add
--z nodynamic-undefined-weak to x86 ELF linker. PRs 19636/19704/19719.
-8. Add -mrelax-relocations= to x86 assembler. PR 19520.
-9. Add -mfence-as-lock-add= to x86 assembler.
-10. Improve 32-bit x86 disassembler with buffer address > 2GB.
-11. Speedup x86-64 linker optimization. PR 19542.
-12. Fix a linker regression with linker-defined versioned symbol. PR
-19698.
-13. Enable -E/--export-dynamic for static link. PR 19617.
-14. Re-enable -Bsymbolic and -Bsymbolic-functions for PIE. PR 19615.
-15. Remove extra section symbols with objcopy/strip. PR 19547.
-16. Don't add DT_NEEDED for unmatched symbol. PR 19553.
-17. Support gnu_debuglink with compressed debug sections. PR 19523.
-18. Fix STT_COMMON support. Add -z common/-z nocommon options to ELF
-linker. Add --elf-stt-common= option to ELF objcopy. PR 19645.
-19. Improve LTO for relocatable link. PR 19317.
-20. Improve LTO for mingw. PR 18199.
-21. Improve ar. PR 19256.
-22. Improve addr2line. PR 19315.
-23. Improve gold support.
-24. Improve COFF support.
-25. Improve Mach-O support.
-26. Improve aarch64 support.
-27. Improve arc support.
-28. Improve arm support.
-29. Improve m68k support.
-30. Improve hppa support.
-31. Improve microblaze support.
-32. Improve msp430 support.
-33. Improve nios2 support.
-34. Improve ppc support.
-35. Improve rl78 support.
-36. Improve rx support.
-37. Improve s390 support.
-38. Improve sparc support.
-39. Improve xtensa support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2015 1114.
-2. Add support for Intel IA MCU psABI.
-3. Implement new R_386_GOT32X, R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX and
-R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX relocations with linker optimization in ld.
-4. Fix x86 assembler bugs. PRs 18631/18257/13571.
-5. Add monitorx/mwaitx instructions to x86 assembler/disassembler.
-6. Change --compress-debug-sections and --compress-debug-sections=zlib
-to zlib-gabi for gas, ld and gold.
-7. Fix a SHF_COMPRESSED bug. PR 18656.
-8. Remove unnecessary x86 PLT entry for function pointer initialization.
-PR 18900.
-9. Add --enable-compressed-debug-sections to configure to enable
-compressed debug sections in ld and gas by default. Currently, it
-is off by default.
-10. Speed up "ld -r" for x86 and ppc.
-11. Improve "ld -r". PR 18867.
-12. Always enable --sysroot in ld. PR 18992.
-13. Remove --warn-orphan and --orphan-handling for ld.
-14. Reduce binary size after linking sections with "a" and "wa" flags.
-PR 19162.
-15. Properly handle __start_* and __stop_* symbols in --gc-sections.
-PRs 19161/19167.
-16. Properly handle > 2GB elf file on 32bit hosts. PR 19123.
-17. Properly handle R_386_PC32 and R_X86_64_PC32 relocations in non-code
-sections. PR 19031.
-18. Properly sort x86 IFUNC relocations. PR 18841.
-19. Fix symbol versioning without PLT. PR 18718.
-20. Issue an error for read-only segment with dynamic x86 IFUNC
-relocations. PR 18801.
-21. Skip IFUNC relocations in debug sections. PR 18808.
-22. Properly merge hidden versioned symbol. PRs 18720/18785.
-23. Properly copy sh_link and sh_info fields of sections for objcopy
-with --only-keep-debug.
-24. Don't change the default symbol for relocatable link. PR 18735.
-25. Support more than one SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX sections. PR 15835.
-26. Properly merge input string sections. PR 19013.
-27. Don't re-export a symbol if it isn't undefined. PR 18914.
-28. Fix objcopy with --pad-to= --reverse-bytes= -interleave=. PRs
-19005/19020.
-29. Add static PIE support to ld.
-30. Fix an objdump crash. PR 18570.
-31. Add --gc-sections support for COFF. PR 11539.
-32. Improve DT_VERNEED and DT_VERDEF support in readelf.
-33. Add --add-symbol to objcopy.
-34. Add -s/--output-separator to strings.
-35. Remove support for older ARC. Added support for new ARC cpus (ARC600,
-ARC601, ARC700, ARCV2).
-36. Add support for CloudABI on aarch64.
-37. Improve gold support.
-38. Improve PE support.
-39. Improve aarch64 support.
-40. Improve alpha support.
-41. Improve arm support.
-42. Improve avr support.
-43. Improve cris support.
-44. Improve hppa support.
-45. Improve mips support.
-46. Improve msp430 support.
-47. Improve nios2 support.
-48. Improve or1k support.
-49. Improve ppc support.
-50. Improve rl78 support.
-51. Improve rx support.
-52. Improve s390 support.
-53. Improve sh support.
-54. Improve v850 support.
-55. Improve xtensa support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2015 0630.
-2. Fix the i386/x86-64 linker regression with prelink support. Prelink
-may corrupt glibc binaries created by the 2.25.51.0.2 i386/x86-64 linker:
-
-https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235068
-
-3. Skip extra relocations in .rel.plt/.rela.plt added by the third-party
-tool. PR binutils/18437.
-4. Fix invalid R_X86_64_GOTPCREL -> R_X86_64_PC32 conversions.
-PR ld/18591.
-5. Reduce the size of ELF .strtab section with GC and suffix merging.
-PR gas/18451.
-6. Improve Intel syntax support in x86 assembler.
-7. Add compact EH support.
-8. Add --sectname-subst option to assembler.
-9. Add --print-memory-usage option to bfd linker.
-10. Improve gold support.
-11. Improve PE support.
-12. Improve aarch64 support.
-13. Improve arm support.
-14. Improve hppa support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve msp430 support.
-17. Improve ppc support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2015 0515.
-2. Add support for Intel MCU psABI.
-3. Add supporr for AMD znver1 processor.
-4. Enable gABI compressed debug section support to as and binutils.
-5. Add --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] support
-to ld and gold.
-6. Don't create .plt section if not needed.
-7. Add branch optimization to x86 assembler.
-8. Change x86 assembler to limit multi-byte nop instructions to 10 bytes.
-9. Remove .note section for -march= in x86 assembler.
-10. Don't change compressed input debug section names. PR binutils/18209.
-11. Support copy relocation in PIE for i386. PR ld/18289.
-12. Support copy relocation on protected symbols for i386 and x86-64.
-PRs ld/15228/17709.
-13. Don't remove _init/_fini functions with --gc-sections. PR ld/18223.
-14. Don't remove .bss section with --gc-sections. PR ld/17615.
-15. Don't create large padding for PT_GNU_RELRO segment. PR ld/18176.
-16. Add llvm plugin support to ld. PRs ld/17878/18250.
-17. Generate correct sh_info for .rel.plt/.rela.plt sections. PR ld/18169.
-18. Fix PIE copy relocations with pointers on x86-64. PR ld/17827.
-19. Change ld not to print newlines in INPUT statements. PRs ld/18344.
-20. Support both AMD64 and Intel64 in x86-64 assembler and
-disassembler. PR binutis/18386.
-21. Fix x86 disassembler for rdrand/rdseed. PR binutils/17898.
-22. Add -z/--decompress option to readelf.
-23. Add --update-section option to objcopy.
-24. Properly dump .debug_loc section. PR binutils/18374.
-25. Properly dump .debug_str_offsets section. PR binutils/18218.
-26. Change readelf -s --wide to issue an error. PR binutils/18101.
-27. Change objcopy not to leave temporary directory in case of error.
-PR binutils/17636.
-28. Avoid gaps between sections and section headers when ld -s is used.
-PRs ld/17773/17842.
-29. Issue a warning for relocation in readonly section for -z text.
-PR ld/17935.
-30. Don't complain about -fPIC for undefined symbol. PR ld/17847.
-31. Don't ignore undefined references produced by linker plugin.
-PRs ld/12365/14272.
-32. Removed undefined symbols in static executables. PR ld/4317.
-33. Remove useless symbols. PRs ld/17973/17975.
-34. Avoid seg fault when input relocation is incompatible with output.
-PR ld/18160.
-35. Fix more memory access issues. PRs ld/17512/17531.
-36. Add Nuxi CloudABI support.
-37. Add ft32 support.
-38. Add Linux/h8300 support.
-39. Improve gold support.
-40. Improve COFF support.
-41. Improve PE support.
-42. Improve aarch64 support.
-43. Improve arm support.
-44. Improve avr support.
-45. Improve m32c support.
-46. Improve mep support.
-47. Improve microblaze support.
-48. Improve mips support.
-49. Improve moxie support.
-50. Improve msp430 support.
-51. Improve nds32 support.
-52. Improve pdp11 support.
-53. Improve ppc support.
-54. Improve rl78 support.
-55. Improve rx support.
-56. Improve s390 support.
-57. Improve sh support.
-58. Improve sh64 support.
-59. Improve v850 support.
-60. Improve xtensa support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.4:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2014 1224.
-2. Update Intel instruction extension support to October, 2014,
-including AVX512VBMI, AVX512IFMA, PCOMMIT and CLWB.
-3. --compress-debug-sections is turned on for Linux/x86 assembler by
-default.
-4. Deprecate R_X86_64_PC32_BND and R_X86_64_PLT32_BND support. Add
--z bndplt linker option to enable MPX PLT.
-5. Support copy relocations in x86-64 PIE.
-6. Don't output symbol version definitions for non-DT_NEEDED libs.
-PR ld/16452, ld/16457.
-7. Optimize out i386/x86-64 JUMP_SLOT relocation.
-8. Check PC-relative offset overflow in x86-64 PLT entry. PR ld/17618.
-9. Check branch displacement overflow in x86-64 PLT entry.
-10. Fix many memory access issues. PRs ld/17453, binutils/17510,
-binutils/17512, binutils/17531, binutils/17533, binutils/17597,
-PR binutuls/17605, PR ld/17713.
-11. Disallow copy relocations against protected symbols. PR ld/15228.
-12. Fix an x86 assembler crash on invalid input. PR gas/17493.
-12. Fix an addr2line bug. PR binutils/17541.
-14. Sort relocs output by ld -r. PR ld/17666.
-15. Speed up x86 PLT dump. PR binutils/17677.
-16. Update x86 assembler to add REX prefix to encode R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF
-for x32. PR ld/17482.
-17. Run eh_frame optimisation for relocatable link. PR ld/17467.
-18. Discard zero address range eh_frame FDEs. PR ld/17447.
-19. Add support for more than one plugin in lib/bfd-plugins. PR ld/17422.
-20. Add -D/-U options to objcopy/strip. PR binutils/17671.
-21. Don't check shared libraries for .eh_frame sections nor --build-id.
-PR ld/17742.
-22. Fix exception frame section with static link for gold. PR gold/14675.
-23. Handle stack split for x32 in gold. PR gold/17729.
-24. Initial visium support.
-25. Improve gold support.
-26. Improve COFF support.
-27. Improve aarch64 support.
-28. Improve arm support.
-29. Improve avr support.
-30. Improve mips support.
-31. Improve moxie support.
-32. Improve msp430 support.
-33. Improve nios2 support.
-34. Improve ppc/ppc64 support.
-35. Improve sparc support.
-36. Improve spu support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.3:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2014 0923.
-2. Update Intel AVX-512 instruction support to July, 2014.
-3. Support Intel secure enclave instruction.
-4. Support Intel clflushopt instruction.
-5. Support Intel xsavec/xrstors instructions.
-6. Fix an x86 linker crash with --just-symbols. PR ld/17306.
-7. Improve x86 PLT entry matching. PR binutils/17154.
-8. Fix an x86 GNU2 TLS linker bug. PR ld/17057.
-9. Update x86-64 linker to create alternate PLT entries for MPX.
-10. Update x86 assembler to disallow VEX/EVEX encoded instructions in
-16-bit mode. PR gas/17421.
-11. Improve prefix handling in x86 disassembler. PR binutils/16893.
-12. Update x86 disassembler to properly handle suffix for iret and sysret
-in Intel mode.
-13. Update x86 disassembler to properly handle prefixes before fwait.
-PR binutils/16891.
-14. Fix an AVX512 gather/scatter x86 disassembler bug. PR
-binutils/16490.
-15. Add -momit-lock-prefix option to x86 assembler.
-16. Fix nm on mixed IR/non-IR input objects.
-17. Fix a --just-symbols linker bug. PR ld/17313.
-18. Fix a bad .eh-frame section bug with LTO and non-LTO objects. PR
-ld/16563.
-19. Improve linker EH frame support
-20. Fix a linker .gnu.warning bug with LTO objects. PR ld/16746.
-21. Improve support for slim LTO objects. PR ld/13227.
-22. Fix a linker crash when MALLOC_PERTURB_ is set. PR ld/17047.
-23. Fix a wrapped symbol linker bug. PR ld/16910.
-24. Fix a linker bug on object with separate debug file. PR ld/16867.
-25. Fix an incorrect error message linker bug. PR ld/16787.
-26. Fix an incorrect warning message linker bug. PR ld/16756.
-27. Fix a linker bug on LTO objects with TLS. PR ld/16846.
-28. Fix the 32-bit linker on large file (~2 Gb). PR ld/16803.
-29. Fix a garbage collection linker bug. PR ld/16643.
-30. Fix a garbage collection linker bug with --dynamic-list. PR
-gold/16530.
-31. Properly handle DW_CFA_restore_state in DWARF dumper. PR
-binutils/16252.
-32. Fix a strip bug. PR binutils/16811.
-33. Update ar/nm to load liblto_plugin.so automatically if available. PR
-binutils/14698.
-34. Check corrupt section names in readelf. PR binutils/16664.a
-35. Add NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION support to readelf. PR binutils/16444.
-36. Update assembler to honour #line directives inside macros. PR
-gas/16908.
-37. Improve linker supprot for --as-needed and --start-group/--end-group.
-PR ld/17068.
-38. Honor "-z noexecstack" for "ld -r". PR ld/16744.
-39. Honor --no-demangle for "ld --cref". PR ld/16569.
-40. Improve gold.
-41. Improve Windows support.
-42. Improve MacOS support.
-43. Improve aarch64 support.
-44. Improve alpha support.
-45. Improve arm support.
-46. Improve avr support.
-47. Improve cris support.
-48. Improve m68k support.
-49. Improve metag support.
-50. Improve mips support.
-51. Improve mmix support.
-52. Improve msp430 support.
-53. Improve nds32 support.
-54. Improve nios2 support.
-55. Improve or1k support.
-56. Improve ppc/ppc64 support.
-57. Improve rl78 support.
-58. Improve rx support.
-59. Improve s390 support.
-60. Improve sh support.
-61. Improve sparc support.
-62. Improve v850 support.
-63. Improve xtensa support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2014 0127.
-2. Fix a linker crash with mixed IR/non-IR input objects.
-3. Update readelf/objdump to display versioned symbol names when dumping
-dynamic relocations. PR 16496.
-4. Update linker to improve orphaned TLS section handling. PR 16498.
-5. Update linker to check incompatible existing default symbol definition.
-PR 16467.
-6. Update linker to properly handle non-PIC references to __ehdr_start in
-pie and shared object. PR 16428.
-7. Update bfd to properly generate PT_GNU_RELRO segment for ld and
-objcopy. PRs 14207/16322/16323.
-8. Update x86 assembler to check for invalid register set in AVX512 gather
-instructions. PR 16489.
-9. Update empty section handling in linker.
-10. Avoid invalid directory in linker library search. PR 16456.
-11. Improve x86 disassembler.
-12. Improve gold.
-13. Improve COFF support.
-14. Add nds32 support.
-15. Improve aarch64 support.
-16. Improve arm support.
-17. Improve mips support.
-18. Improve msp430 support.
-19. Improve ppc support.
-20. Improve rl78 support.
-21. Improve z80 support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2013 1213.
-2. Fix ld and objcopy to set the SHF_INFO_LINK bit for SHT_REL/SHT_RELA
-sections. PR 16317.
-3. Fix ld and objcopy to properly generate PT_GNU_RELRO segment. PRs
-14207/16322/16323.
-4. Fix objcopy to copy EI_OSABI field. PR 16318.
-5. Change ld to set e_type in ELF header to ET_EXEC for -pie
--Ttext-segment=.
-6. Fix a ld bug for --as-needed with symbol versioning.
-7. Add gas/ld/gold support for R_X86_64_PC32_BND and R_X86_64_PLT32_BND
-relocations.
-8. Fix an assembler line listing bug. PR 16109.
-9. Improve gold.
-10. Improve nacl support.
-11. Improve COFF support.
-12. Improve aarch64 support.
-13. Improve arm support.
-14. Improve hppa support.
-15. Improve mips support.
-16. Improve ppc support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.52.0.2:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2013 1106.
-2. Add Intel AVX-512 new instruction support.
-3. Add Intel MPX new instruction support.
-4. Update ld to support x86-64 large PIC model with TLS GD and LD sequences.
-5. Fix ld to properly handle R_X86_64_DTPOFF64. PR 15685.
-6. Fix x86 assembler to properly check 64-bit register.
-7. Update x86 assembler not to align text/data/bss sections for ELF.
-8. Fix x86 assembler to properly support cvttps2pi. PR 13572.
-9. Fix ld to generate warning sections in glibc. PR 15762.
-10. Avoid corrupted binary generated by objcopy/strip. PR 16056.
-11. Improve ld hash. PR 15657.
-12. Fix objdump on /proc/kcore. PR 15818.
-13. Improve DWARF support.
-14. Improve addr2line. PR 15994.
-15. Improve readelf. PR 15745.
-16. Improve gold.
-17. Improve nacl support.
-18. Improve aarch64 support.
-19. Improve arm support.
-20. Improve cris support.
-21. Improve hppa support.
-22. Improve m32c support.
-23. Improve m68k support.
-24. Improve mips support.
-25. Improve msp430 support.
-26. Improve nios2 support.
-27. Improve ppc support.
-28. Improve rl78 support.
-29. Improve rx support.
-30. Improve rs6000 support.
-31. Improve s390 support.
-32. Improve sparc support.
-33. Improve tile support.
-34. Improve vax support.
-
-Changes from binutils 2.23.52.0.1:
-
-1. Update from binutils 2013 0426.
-2. Add x32 support to embedded x86_64 ELF target.
-3. Fix an x86 IFUNC linker regression. PR 15371.
-4. Fix an LTO linker weak definition bug. PR 15323.
-5. Remove stale dynamic table entries for symbols optimized out by LTO.
-PR 15270.
-6. Revert the fix for PR 15149. When creating executables, BFD linker
-won't issue an error for undefined weak reference which is defined in
-7 shared library from DT_NEEDED.
-8. Ignore weak reference which is is defined in a shared library from
-DT_NEEDED. This may change the behavior of resulting binaries with
-undefined weak reference. List libraries needed on command-line as work
-around. PR 12549.
-9. Fix a MIPS ELF linker crash. PR 15382.
-10. Align LMA per VMA alignment only if needed. PR 15222.
-11. Fix a BFD decompress memory leak. PR 15356.
-12. Properly check SIB byte in x86 disassembler.
-13, Fix invalid memory access in readelf. PR 15191.
-14, Fix invalid memory access in DWARF dumper. PRs 15206/15202/15201.
-15. Improve gold.
-16. Improve aarch64 support.
-17. Improve arm support.
-18. Improve avr support.
-19. Improve h8300 support.
-20. Improve mips support.
-21. Improve nios2 support.
-22. Improve ppc support.
-23. Improve rl78 support.
-24. Improve sh support.
-25. Improve sparc support.
-26. Improve tic6x support.
-27. Improve v850 support.
-
-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.
-
-It is available as users/hjl/linux/release/2.26.51.0.2 tag at
-
-https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=summary
-
-Thanks.
-
-
-H.J. Lu
-hjl.tools@gmail.com
-07/25/2016