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3 * The MIPS port now supports the Loongson 3A1000 processor, aka Loongson3a,
4 which implements the MIPS64r2 ISA, the Loongson-mmi ASE, Loongson-cam ASE
5 and Loongson-ext ASE instructions. Add -march=gs464 option for Loongson
6 3A1000 processor, The -march=loongson3a is an alias of -march=gs464 for
7 compatibility.
8
9 Changes in 2.31:
10
11 * Add support for disassembling netronome Flow Processor (NFP) firmware files.
12
13 * The AArch64 port now supports showing disassembly notes which are emitted
14 when inconsistencies are found with the instruction that may result in the
15 instruction being invalid. These can be turned on with the option -M notes
16 to objdump.
17
18 * The AArch64 port now emits warnings when a combination of an instruction and
19 a named register could be invalid.
20
21 * Added O modifier to ar to display member offsets inside an archive
22
23 Changes in 2.30:
24
25 * Add --debug-dump=links option to readelf and --dwarf=links option to objdump
26 which displays the contents of any .gnu_debuglink or .gnu_debugaltlink
27 sections.
28
29 Add a --debug-dump=follow-links option to readelf and a --dwarf=follow-links
30 option to objdump which causes indirect links into separate debug info files
31 to be followed when dumping other DWARF sections.
32
33 Changes in 2.29:
34
35 * The MIPS port now supports microMIPS eXtended Physical Addressing (XPA)
36 instructions for assembly and disassembly.
37
38 * The MIPS port now supports the microMIPS Release 5 ISA for assembly and
39 disassembly.
40
41 * The MIPS port now supports the Imagination interAptiv MR2 processor,
42 which implements the MIPS32r3 ISA, the MIPS16e2 ASE as well as a couple
43 of implementation-specific regular MIPS and MIPS16e2 ASE instructions.
44
45 * The SPARC port now supports the SPARC M8 processor, which implements the
46 Oracle SPARC Architecture 2017.
47
48 * The MIPS port now supports the MIPS16e2 ASE for assembly and disassembly.
49
50 * Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND and PT_GNU_MBIND_XXX.
51
52 * Add support for the wasm32 ELF conversion of the WebAssembly file format.
53
54 * Add --inlines option to objdump, which extends the --line-numbers option
55 so that inlined functions will display their nesting information.
56
57 * Add --merge-notes options to objcopy to reduce the size of notes in
58 a binary file by merging and deleting redundant notes.
59
60 * Add support for locating separate debug info files using the build-id
61 method, where the separate file has a name based upon the build-id of
62 the original file.
63
64 Changes in 2.28:
65
66 * This version of binutils fixes a problem with PowerPC VLE 16A and 16D
67 relocations which were functionally swapped, for example,
68 R_PPC_VLE_HA16A performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16D while R_PPC_VLE_HA16D
69 performed like R_PPC_VLE_HA16A. This could have been fixed by
70 renumbering relocations, which would keep object files created by an
71 older version of gas compatible with a newer ld. However, that would
72 require an ABI update, affecting other assemblers and linkers that
73 create and process the relocations correctly. It is recommended that
74 all VLE object files be recompiled, but ld can modify the relocations
75 if --vle-reloc-fixup is passed to ld. If the new ld command-line
76 option is not used, ld will ld warn on finding relocations inconsistent
77 with the instructions being relocated.
78
79 * The nm program has a new command-line option (--with-version-strings)
80 which will display a symbol's version information, if any, after the
81 symbol's name.
82
83 * The ARC port of objdump now accepts a -M option to specify the extra
84 instruction class(es) that should be disassembled.
85
86 * The --remove-section option for objcopy and strip now accepts section
87 patterns starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching
88 section. A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections
89 matched by an earlier --remove-section pattern.
90
91 * The --only-section option for objcopy now accepts section patterns
92 starting with an exclamation point to indicate a non-matching section.
93 A non-matching section is removed from the set of sections matched by
94 an earlier --only-section pattern.
95
96 * New --remove-relocations=SECTIONPATTERN option for objcopy and strip.
97 This option can be used to remove sections containing relocations.
98 The SECTIONPATTERN is the section to which the relocations apply, not
99 the relocation section itself.
100
101 Changes in 2.27:
102
103 * Add a configure option, --enable-64-bit-archive, to force use of a
104 64-bit format when creating an archive symbol index.
105
106 * Add --elf-stt-common= option to objcopy for ELF targets to control
107 whether to convert common symbols to the STT_COMMON type.
108
109 Changes in 2.26:
110
111 * Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file:
112 --add-symbol <name>=[<section>:]<value>[,<flags>]
113
114 * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures.
115
116 * Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support
117 --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF
118 targets.
119
120 * Add --update-section option to objcopy.
121
122 * Add --output-separator option to strings.
123
124 Changes in 2.25:
125
126 * Add --data option to strings to only print strings in loadable, initialized
127 data sections. Change the default behaviour to be --all, but add a new
128 configure time option of --disable-default-strings-all to restore the old
129 default behaviour.
130
131 * Add --include-all-whitespace to strings.
132
133 * Add --dump-section option to objcopy.
134
135 * Add support for the Andes NDS32.
136
137 Changes in 2.24:
138
139 * Objcopy now supports wildcard characters in command-line options that take
140 section names.
141
142 * Add support for Altera Nios II.
143
144 Changes in 2.23:
145
146 * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture.
147
148 * Add support for x64 Windows target of the delayed-load-library.
149
150 * Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture.
151
152 Changes in 2.22:
153
154 * Add support for displaying the contents of .debug.macro sections.
155
156 * Add --preprocessor-arg option to windres to specify additional options
157 passed to preprocessor.
158
159 * Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump. These are used by
160 the new Emacs mode, see dwarf-mode.el.
161
162 * Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures.
163
164 changes in 2.21:
165
166 * Add --interleave-width option to objcopy to allowing copying a range of
167 bytes from the input to the output with the --interleave option.
168
169 * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.
170
171 * Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using
172 the -u / --unwind option.
173
174 * Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table.
175
176 * A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format
177 binaries.
178
179 * Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by
180 '== <ID>' option.
181
182 * Add a new command-line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the
183 address before function name or source filename.
184
185 * Add a new command-line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have
186 a more human readable output.
187
188 * The hppa/som targets can now be compiled on any host.
189
190 Changes in 2.20:
191
192 * Add support for delay importing to dlltool. Use the --output-delaylib <file>
193 switch to create a delay-import library. The resulting app will load the dll
194 as soon as the first function is called. It will link to __delayLoadHelper2()
195 from the static delayimp library, which will import LoadLibraryA and
196 GetProcAddress from kernel32.
197
198 * Add a new command-line option, --insn-width=WIDTH, to objdump to specify
199 number of bytes to be displayed on a single line when disassembling
200 instructions.
201
202 * Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence
203 of bytes via the --relocated-dump=<name|number> command-line option.
204
205 * The gprof program has been given a new command-line option:
206 --external-symbols-table=<filename> which reads in symbols from a specified
207 file.
208
209 * The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects
210 used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats.
211
212 * The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format
213 for objcopy.
214
215 * Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base, --section-alignment,
216 --stack and --subsystem command-line options to objcopy, which will
217 set PE optional header.
218
219 * Option --dwarf/-W of objdump is now as flexible as readelf --debug-dump/-w.
220
221 * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
222 symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries. In the
223 latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED
224 entry of one of the libraries already linked.
225
226 * Added --prefix=PREFIX and --prefix-strip=LEVEL switches to objdump to
227 add absolute paths for -S.
228
229 * Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall-
230 back to old import table generation with null element prefix.
231
232 * Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify <implib> to
233 report an error when the import library is associated with
234 multiple DLLs.
235
236 * Added --identify <implib> option to dlltool, which determines the
237 name of the DLL associated with the specified <implib>.
238
239 * Support for PowerPC booke64 instructions has been removed. The assembler no
240 longer accepts -mbooke32 or -mbooke64 and the disassembler no longer accepts
241 -Mbooke32 or -Mbooke64. Instead, -mbooke and -Mbooke should be used.
242
243 Changes in 2.19:
244
245 * Added -wL switch to dump decoded contents of .debug_line.
246
247 * Added support for "thin" archives which contain pathnames pointing to
248 object files rather than the files themselves and which contain a
249 flattened symbol index for all objects, and archives, which have been
250 added to the archive.
251
252 * Added -F switch to objdump to include file offsets in the disassembly.
253
254 * Added -c switch to readelf to allow string dumps of archive symbol index.
255
256 * Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
257
258 * Added -p switch to readelf to allow string dumps of sections.
259
260 Changes in 2.18:
261
262 * Resolved 37 coding problems in bfd including static array overruns, null
263 pointer dereferences and use of a malloc buffer after it has been freed, as
264 revealed by static analysis donated by Coverity, Inc. (http://scan.coverity.com).
265
266 * The binutils sources are now released under version 3 of the GNU General
267 Public License.
268
269 * A new tool "windmc" has been added for some targets. This is a message
270 compiler which attempts to be compatible with the MS version.
271
272 * Add codepage support to the windres tool. It now supports many new
273 resource types (e.g. MANIFEST, TOOLBAR, etc). The output generation
274 for binary files is done now via bfd itself. The endianess problems
275 for different hosts are solved. Dumps of .res files can now be
276 re-compiled by windres without lossing resources or compilation errors.
277 Some problems on dialog resource translations are corrected.
278
279 * Add --extract-symbol command-line option to objcopy, which will
280 strip everything out of an ordinary object file or executable except
281 for its symbol table. Files containing just symbols can be useful
282 to some OSes.
283
284 Changes in 2.17:
285
286 * Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER".
287
288 * Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation
289 specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling
290 of types.
291
292 * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so
293 that extra switches can be read from <file>.
294
295 * Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF
296 debug sections.
297
298 * Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details.
299 "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated.
300
301 * powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security
302 conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all
303 code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT
304 and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt.
305
306 * Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information
307 for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function.
308
309 * Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name.
310
311 * Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address
312 when disassembling VAX binaries.
313
314 * Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches
315 to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols.
316
317 * gprof now allows input files to have histogram records for
318 several memory ranges, provided those ranges are disjoint.
319
320 Changes in 2.16:
321
322 * Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups.
323
324 * objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
325 --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
326 matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but
327 retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations.
328
329 * readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections. This
330 happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered. The
331 command-line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display
332 the contents of the .debug_range section.
333
334 * nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of
335 symbols which the target considers to be special. By default these symbols
336 are no longer displayed. Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping
337 symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and
338 between ARM and THUMB code.
339
340 * dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional
341 import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them.
342
343 Changes in 2.15:
344
345 * objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the
346 disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some
347 pseudo instruction name. I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move",
348 "sll" instead of "nop", etc.
349
350 * objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on
351 the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them.
352
353 * readelf can now parse archives.
354
355 * objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a
356 format compatible with ctags tool.
357
358 * objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing
359 those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug. The idea is that
360 this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create
361 a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the
362 debugging info.
363
364 * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink
365 section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug
366 information for the file to be held in a separate file.
367
368 * BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX
369 single-character representation. This can be checked by running nm
370 with the -a switch.
371
372 Changes in 2.14:
373
374 * Added --info switch to objcopy and strip.
375
376 * Support for Vitesse IQ2000 added by Red Hat.
377
378 * Added 'S' encoding to strings to allow the display of 8-bit characters.
379
380 * Added --prefix-symbols=<text>, --prefix-sections=<text> and
381 --prefix-alloc-sections=<text> to objcopy.
382
383 * readelf can handle the extensions to the DWARF2 spec used by the Unified
384 Parallel C compiler.
385
386 * BFD no longer declares a "boolean" type, to avoid clashes with other
387 headers that declare the same. Users of BFD should replace boolean,
388 false and true, with int, 0 and 1, or define their own boolean type.
389
390 * Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov.
391
392 Changes in 2.13:
393
394 * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
395 and FR500 included.
396
397 Changes in version 2.12:
398
399 * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
400
401 * size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only).
402
403 * readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing
404 lines to fit into 80 columns.
405
406 * strings: Add --encoding to display wide character strings. By Markus Kuhn.
407
408 * objcopy: Add --rename-section to change section names.
409
410 * readelf: Support added for DWARF 2.1 extensions. Support added for
411 displaying the contents of .debug.macinfo sections.
412
413 * New command-line switches added to objcopy to allow symbols to be kept as
414 global symbols, and also to specify files containing lists of such symbols.
415 by Honda Hiroki.
416
417 * Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg.
418
419 * New command-line switch to objcopy --alt-machine-code which creates a binary
420 with an alternate machine code if one is defined in the architecture
421 description. Only supported for ELF targets. By Alexandre Oliva.
422
423 * New command-line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets
424 the architecture of the output file to the given argument. This option only
425 makes sense, if the input target is binary. Otherwise it is ignored.
426 By Stefan Geuken.
427
428 * Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff.
429
430 Changes in binutils 2.11:
431
432 * Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM
433 extenstions.
434
435 * Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command-line switch to objcopy.
436 By Luciano Gemme.
437
438 * Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander.
439
440 * Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt.
441
442 * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
443
444 Changes in binutils 2.10:
445
446 * Support for 64-bit ELF on HPPA.
447
448 * New command-line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the
449 entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given
450 file.
451
452 * New command-line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes
453 a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the
454 disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or
455 raw verions.
456
457 * objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed
458 with intel syntax.
459
460 * New program: readelf. This displays the contents of ELF format files,
461 regardless of target machine.
462
463 * objcopy now takes --change-section-lma, --change-section-vma, and
464 --change-section-address options. The old --adjust-section-vma option is
465 equivalent to --change-section-address. The other --adjust-* options are now
466 renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work.
467
468 * objcopy has a --redefine-sym option that lets you rename symbols.
469
470 * objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified
471 sections.
472
473 * dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command.
474
475 * dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols,
476 --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options.
477
478 Changes in binutils 2.9:
479
480 * Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32
481 files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT.
482
483 * The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than
484 the VMA of the sections.
485
486 * Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table.
487
488 Changes in binutils 2.8:
489
490 * The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved. Use
491 the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format. There are also new
492 --disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler
493 output.
494
495 * Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets. For example,
496 objdump -b i386-pc-linux. The triplets are not passed through config.sub,
497 so they must be in canonical form.
498
499 * Added new addr2line program. This uses the debugging information to convert
500 an address into a file name and line number within a program.
501
502 * Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy.
503
504 * Added --weaken argument to objcopy.
505
506 * objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries.
507
508 * Added --adjust-vma option to objdump.
509
510 * Added -C/--demangle option to objdump.
511
512 * Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy.
513
514 Changes in binutils 2.7:
515
516 * Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure.
517
518 * Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy.
519
520 * Added --defined-only argument to nm.
521
522 * Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy.
523
524 * The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc.
525
526 * Added --line-numbers option to nm.
527
528 * Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump.
529
530 * Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP.
531
532 Changes in binutils 2.6:
533
534 * Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy.
535
536 * Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new
537 file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit
538 generating plain binary files.
539
540 * Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump.
541
542 * ar and ranlib now work on AIX. The tools are now built by default on AIX.
543
544 Changes in binutils 2.5:
545
546 * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly
547 listing, for a more useful listing of relocatable files.
548
549 * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections.
550 Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections.
551
552 * Added --size-sort option to nm.
553
554 * strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF
555 executables.
556
557 Changes in binutils 2.4:
558
559 * Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and
560 PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor).
561
562 * Support for Irix 5.
563
564 * Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked
565 ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly.
566
567 Changes in binutils 2.3:
568
569 * A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in
570 ELF and COFF files.
571
572 * A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into
573 Novell NetWare Loadable Modules.
574
575 * The strings program has been added.
576
577 Changes in binutils 2.2:
578
579 * The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with
580 'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for
581 'cp'.
582
583 * The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded
584 (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names. (Note: This
585 may get moved to the gcc distribution.)
586
587 * nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching
588 the output from BSD nm.
589
590 * ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives.
591
592 * New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH.
593
594 * Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb.
595
596 * There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use.
597
598 * There is the beginnings of a test suite.
599
600 Changes in binutils 2.1:
601
602 * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities
603 should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. Please let us know how well this works.
604
605 * ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD
606 version), if there are any object files in the archive. So running ranlib is
607 now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used). This is required
608 for Posix.2 conformance.
609
610 * The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives
611 independently of the selected target format. This is to encourage people to
612 switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages.
613
614 * The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only
615 and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options.
616
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