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2 * Add --fix-stm32l4xx-629360 to the ARM linker to enable a link-time
3 workaround for a bug in the bus matrix / memory controller for some of
4 the STM32 Cortex-M4 based products (STM32L4xx)
5
6 * Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,ld} to
7 decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default.
8
9 * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures.
10
11 * Experimental support for linker garbage collection (--gc-sections)
12 has been enabled for COFF and PE based targets.
13
14 * New command line option for ELF targets to compress DWARF debug
15 sections, --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi].
16
17 * New command line option, --orphan-handling=[place|warn|error|discard], to
18 adjust how orphan sections are handled. The default is 'place' which gives
19 the current behaviour, 'warn' and 'error' issue a warning or error
20 respectively when orphan sections are found, and 'discard' will discard all
21 orphan sections.
22
23 * Add support for LLVM plugin.
24
25 * Add --print-memory-usage option to report memory blocks usage.
26
27 * Add --require-defined option, it's like --undefined except the new symbol
28 must be defined by the end of the link.
29
30 Changes in 2.25:
31
32 * PE binaries now once again contain real timestamps by default. To disable
33 the inclusion of a timestamp in a PE binary, use the --no-insert-timestamp
34 command line option.
35
36 * Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k.
37
38 * Add support for the --build-id command line option to COFF based targets.
39
40 * x86/x86_64 pe-coff now supports the --build-id option.
41
42 * Add support for the Andes NDS32.
43
44 Changes in 2.24:
45
46 * Add LOG2CEIL() builtin function to the linker script language
47
48 * Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor.
49
50 * Add support for Altera Nios II.
51
52 * Add support for the V850E3V5 architecture.
53
54 * Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor.
55
56 * --enable-new-dtags no longer generates old dtags in addition to new dtags.
57
58 * Remove linker support for MIPS ECOFF targets.
59
60 * Add ALIGN_WITH_INPUT to the linker script language to force the alignment of
61 an output section to use the maximum alignment of all its input sections.
62
63 Changes in 2.23:
64
65 * Enable compressed debug section feature for x86/x86_64 pe-coff.
66
67 * Add support for the 64-bit ARM architecture: AArch64.
68
69 * Added SORT_NONE to the linker script language to disable section sorting.
70
71 * Add a linker-provided symbol when producing ELF output, '__ehdr_start'
72 to point to the ELF file header (and nearby program headers) in the
73 program's memory image.
74
75 * Add support for S12X processor.
76
77 * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture.
78
79 * Add support for the Freescale XGATE architecture.
80
81 * Add option -f FILE on AIX (for response file).
82
83 * Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture.
84
85 * Add support for the Adapteva EPIPHANY architecture.
86
87 Changes in 2.22:
88
89 * --copy-dt-needed-entries is no longer enabled by default. Instead
90 --no-copy-dt-needed-entries is the default.
91
92 * INPUT_SECTION_FLAGS has been added to the linker script language
93 to allow selection of input sections by section header section flags.
94
95 * Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures.
96
97 * Added SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY to the linker script language to permit
98 sorting sections by numerical value of the GCC init_priority attribute
99 encoded in the section name.
100
101 Changes in 2.21:
102
103 * Linker script expression evaluation is somewhat more sane. This may
104 break scripts that depend on quirks of the old expression evaluation.
105
106 * Turn off underscoring for x86_64 PE+-COFF targets. For old behavior the
107 option --enable-leading-mingw64-underscores can be used on configure of
108 bfd.
109
110 * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.
111
112 * --add-needed renamed to --copy-dt-needed-entries in order to avoid confusion
113 with --as-needed option.
114
115 * Extend .def file syntax by '== <ID>' for imports and exports. This allows
116 to alias the import/export table name written in PE image.
117
118 * Add --exclude-all-symbols option to PE based linkers. This prevents all
119 symbols from automatically being exported.
120
121 * Add support for the Renesas RX processor.
122
123 * Add support for alpha-vms target.
124
125 Changes in 2.20:
126
127 * GNU/Linux targets now support the STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbol binding. This is a
128 GNU extension to the standard set of ELF symbol bindings. The binding will
129 be passed on to the dynamic linker which will make sure that in the entire
130 process there is just one symbol with the given name and type in use.
131
132 * PE targets now support a GNU extension to allow the alignment of common
133 common symbols to be specified. This support uses custom options in
134 the .drectve section, which will be disregarded by the native tools.
135
136 * PE targets now add primitive support for ELF version scripts; symbols
137 are not versioned, but the local and global symbol visibility directives
138 are respected when filtering symbols in auto-export mode.
139
140 * New option --no-export-dynamic to undo the effect of the -E and
141 --export-dynamic options.
142
143 * ELF: --warn-alternate-em option to warn if an object has alternate
144 ELF machine code.
145
146 * New script function REGION_ALIAS to add alias names to memory regions.
147
148 * PE targets no longer make use of the long section names PE extension to
149 the COFF format when generating executable images, by default. The old
150 (slightly non-conformant) behaviour can still be invoked by using the
151 new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option. It is also enabled
152 automatically in the presence of un-stripped debug information, as GDB
153 needs to be able to find the debug info sections by their full names.
154
155 * For GNU/Linux systems the linker will now avoid processing any relocations
156 made against symbols of the STT_GNU_IFUNC type and instead emit them into
157 the resulting binary for processing by the loader.
158
159 * --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
160 symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries. In the
161 latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED
162 entry of one of the libraries already linked.
163
164 * Add a new command line option, -Ttext-segment ADDR, for ELF targets
165 to set the address of the first byte of the text segment.
166
167 * Add support for Sunplus score architecture.
168
169 * Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to ld for PE targets to
170 allow fallback to old import table generation with null element prefix.
171
172 * Windows PE systems now support a new --exclude-modules-for-implib option,
173 allowing users to partition object files and archive members between a DLL
174 and its associated import library as they are generated during linking.
175
176 * Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture.
177
178 * Add CR16 ELF --embedded-relocs (used to embedded relocations into binaries
179 for Embedded-PIC code) option.
180
181 * Add to the PE/PE+ targets the support of two different kinds of
182 pseudo-relocations. They can be selected by the switches
183 --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc-v1 and --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc-v2.
184 For the switch --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc it uses for 32-bit
185 runtime pseudo relocation version one, for 64-bit the version two.
186
187 Changes in 2.19:
188
189 * Linker scripts support a new INSERT command that makes it easier to
190 augment the default script.
191
192 * Linker script input section filespecs may now specify a file within an
193 archive by writing "archive:file".
194
195 * The --sort-common switch now has an optional argument which specifies the
196 direction of sorting.
197
198 * The M68K linker now supports multiple GOT generation schemes controlled via
199 the --got=<type> command line option.
200
201 * The ARM EABI linker will now generate stubs for function calls to symbols
202 that are too far away. The placement of the stubs is controlled by a new
203 linker command line option: --stub-group-size=N.
204
205 Changes in 2.18:
206
207 * Linker sources now released under version 3 of the GNU General Public
208 License.
209
210 * ELF: New --build-id option to generate a unique per-binary identifier
211 embedded in a note section.
212
213 * Added support for National Semicondutor CompactRISC (ie CR16) target.
214
215 * -l:foo now searches the library path for a filename called foo,
216 without converting it to libfoo.a or libfoo.so.
217
218 * Add a new command line option '--default-script=FILE' or '-dT FILE'
219 which specifies a replacement for the built in, default linker
220 script.
221
222 * ELF: Add -Bsymbolic-functions, --dynamic-list-cpp-new, which puts C++
223 operator new and delete on the dynamic list, and --dynamic-list-data,
224 builtin list for --dynamic-list, which puts global data symbols on the
225 dynamic list.
226
227 * Add support for x86_64 PE+ target.
228
229 * Add support for Score target.
230
231 * ELF: Add --dynamic-list option to specify a list of global symbols
232 whose references shouldn't be bound to the definition within the
233 shared library, or a list of symbols which should be added to the
234 symbol table in the executable.
235
236 * The default output section LMA has changed for allocatable sections from
237 being equal to VMA, to keeping the difference between LMA and VMA the same as
238 the previous output section in the same region. This is a more useful
239 default when using overlays and other cases where you specify an LMA
240 differing from the VMA for some sections.
241
242 * New switch: --print-gc-sections to list any sections removed by garabge
243 collection.
244
245 * ARM: Added --vfp11-denorm-fix option to work around an erratum in current
246 VFP11 coprocessors.
247
248 Changes in 2.17:
249
250 * Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems.
251
252 * Modify the Linux linker search order to better match ld.so search order.
253 Look for DT_NEEDED libraries in paths specified by ld.so.conf before
254 searching the default directories, rather than vice versa.
255 Use $prefix/etc/ld.so.conf if it exists, otherwise /etc/ld.so.conf.
256
257 * PE-COFF: Forward exports from DLL's can now be specified in .def files
258 passed directly to ld.
259
260 * Support for the Z80 processor family has been added.
261
262 * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra
263 switches can be read from <file>.
264
265 Changes in 2.16:
266
267 * Support for the R_ARM_V4BX relocation as defined in the ARM AAELF
268 specification has been added via the --fix-v4bx command-line option.
269
270 * New linker script construct AS_NEEDED(), which sets the --as-needed flag
271 for input files listed inside of it.
272
273 * A new command-line option, --sysroot, can be used to override the
274 default sysroot location. It only applies to toolchains that were
275 configured using --with-sysroot.
276
277 * New linker script functions: ORIGIN() and LENGTH() which return information
278 about a specified memory region.
279
280 * Port to MAXQ processor contributed by HCL Tech.
281
282 * Added SEGMENT_START to the linker script language to permit the user to
283 override the base address for a segment from the command-line.
284
285 * ELF: --warn-shared-textrel option to warn if adding a DT_TEXTREL to a shared
286 object.
287
288 * Added SORT_BY_NAME and SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT to the linker script
289 language to permit sorting sections by section name or section
290 maximum alignment.
291
292 * Added a new linker command line switch, --sort-section name|alignment,
293 to sort sections by section name or maximum alignment.
294
295 * ELF: --add-needed/--no-add-needed options to control if a DT_NEEDED tag
296 should be added when a shared library comes from DT_NEEDED tags.
297
298 * Support for the crx-elf target added.
299
300 * Support for the sh-symbianelf target added.
301
302 * A new linker command line switch has been added which allows the hash table
303 size to be set to a suitable prime value near to its argument. This switch
304 is --hash-size=<NUMBER>. Also if the switch --reduce-memory-overheads is
305 used, and --hash-size has not been used, then the default value will be set
306 to 1021.
307
308 * Linker map files are now generated with an O(N) algorithm for finding symbols
309 that are defined in each section. This uses about 40% more memory for
310 symbols than the old O(N^2) algorithm. You can use the new
311 --reduce-memory-overheads option to select the old algorithm; this option
312 might also be used in the future to select similar tradeoffs.
313
314 Changes in 2.15:
315
316 * ELF: --as-needed/--no-as-needed options to control if a DT_NEEDED tag should
317 be added only when a shared library is referenced.
318
319 * PE: --large-address-aware option to indicate executables support virtual
320 addresses greater than 2 gigabytes.
321
322 * DWARF 2 support for i386pe added.
323
324 * The linker script operator DEFINED() will now yield 1 only for a symbol that
325 is defined before the statement where DEFINED is used.
326
327 * The MIPS --embedded-relocs (used to embed relocations into binaries for
328 Embedded-PIC code) is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
329
330 * cr16c support added by NSC.
331
332 * m32r Linux (ELF) support added by Renesas.
333
334 * Improved linker's handling of unresolved symbols. The switch
335 --unresolved-symbols=<method> has been added to tell the linker when it
336 should report them and the switch --warn-unresolved-symbols has been added to
337 make reports be issued as warning messages rather than errors.
338
339 Changes in 2.14:
340
341 * Added support for Xtensa architecture.
342
343 * Added --with-sysroot configure switch to specify a target system root, for
344 linking against a target filesystem image.
345
346 * Added --accept-unknown-linker-format to restore old linker behaviour (pre
347 2.14) of silently accepting and linking in any files in an unknown binary
348 file format.
349
350 * Added --no-omagic to undo the effects of the -N option.
351
352 * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of
353 DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal.
354
355 * Added --with-lib-path configure switch to specify default value for
356 LIB_PATH.
357
358 * ARM port to QNX operating system added by Graeme Peterson.
359
360 * IP2K support added by Denis Chertykov.
361
362 Changes in 2.13:
363
364 * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
365 and FR500 included.
366
367 Changes in version 2.13:
368
369 * DEC VAX ELF support, by Matt Thomas.
370
371 Changes in version 2.12:
372
373 * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
374
375 * Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores.
376
377 * Support for -z nocopyreloc in the x86 ELF linker, which disables
378 production of copy relocs. Warning: using this option may result in
379 non-sharable applications.
380
381 * Support for -z combreloc in the ELF linker, which puts dynamic
382 relocations against the same symbol together, so that dynamic linker
383 can use an one-entry symbol lookup cache.
384
385 * Support for ELF SHF_MERGE section merging, by Jakub Jelinek.
386
387 Changes in version 2.11:
388
389 * Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs.
390
391 * Support added for eliminating duplicate DWARF2 debug information by
392 having the compiler generate the information in sections called
393 .gnu.linkonce.wi.XXXX where XXXX is a checksum for the contents. The
394 linker then merges these sections together into the normal .debug_info
395 section.
396
397 * The native ELF linker now searches the directories in DT_RUNPATH or
398 DT_RPATH of a shared library for shared libraries needed by it.
399
400 * TI C54x support, by Timothy Wall.
401
402 * Added command line switch --section-start to set the start address of any
403 specified section.
404
405 * Added ability to emit full relocation information in linked executables,
406 enabled by --emit-relocs. Some post-linkage optimization tools need
407 this information in order to be able to correctly identify and perform
408 symbol relative addressing in the event of changes in section contents
409 (instructions being added or deleted, extending data sections, etc.)
410
411 * Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt (preliminary, alpha quality).
412
413 * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
414
415 * Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff.
416
417 Changes in version 2.10:
418
419 * Added AT> to the linker script language to allow load-time allocation of
420 sections into regions.
421
422 * Added garbage collection of unused sections, enabled by --gc-sections.
423 It does require a bit of backend support; currently implemented are
424 arm-elf, avr-elf, d10v-elf, fr30-elf, i386-elf, m32r-elf, m68k-elf,
425 mcore-elf, mips-elf, mn10300-elf, ppc-elf, sh-elf, sparc-elf, and v850-elf.
426 Others will ignore the option.
427
428 * Added SORT to the linker script language to permit sorting sections by file
429 name or section name.
430
431 * Added EXTERN to the linker script language as an equivalent to the -u
432 command-line option.
433
434 * Added ASSERT to the linker script language.
435
436 * Added EXCLUDE_FILE to the linker script language for further control over
437 wildcard file names.
438
439 * Added -O option to optimize linker output (as of this writing, this only
440 affects ELF shared library generation).
441
442 * The -e option now accepts a number as well as a symbol name.
443
444 * Added --no-undefined option to disallow undefined symbols when creating a
445 shared library.
446
447 * The linker now issues a warning, not an error, for an undefined symbol when
448 using -Bsymbolic; use the new --no-undefined option to get the old
449 behaviour.
450
451 * Added --demangle and --no-demangle options.
452
453 Changes in version 2.9:
454
455 * Added SQUAD to the linker script language.
456
457 * New option --no-warn-mismatch.
458
459 * The MEMORY command now parses the attributes to determine where sections that
460 are not placed in a specific memory region are placed.
461
462 Changes in version 2.8:
463
464 * Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section
465 names.
466
467 * The linker now supports symbol versions in ELF.
468
469 * The NOCROSSREFS command was added to the linker script language.
470
471 * The LOADADDR expression was added to the linker script language.
472
473 * MAX and MIN functions were added to the linker script language.
474
475 * The OVERLAY construct was added to the linker script language.
476
477 * New option --warn-section-align to warn when the address of an output section
478 changes due to alignment of an input section.
479
480 * New options --filter/-F and --auxiliary/-f.
481
482 Changes in version 2.7:
483
484 * New option --cref to print out a cross reference table.
485
486 * New option --wrap SYMBOL.
487
488 * New option --no-whole-archive, to turn off the effect of --whole-archive.
489
490 * Input sections assigned to the output section /DISCARD/ in the linker script
491 are not included in the output file.
492
493 * The SunOS and ELF linkers now merge stabs debugging information which uses
494 the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types. This reduces the amount of debugging
495 information generated.
496
497 Changes in version 2.6:
498
499 * When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true
500 of most ELF section names), the linker will automatically define symbols
501 __start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the section name, at the
502 beginning and the end of the section. This is used by glibc.
503
504 Addendum: Current versions of the linker (at least for version 2.18 onwards
505 and possibly much earlier as well) place two restrictions on this feature: The
506 symbols are only implemented for orphaned sections, not for explicitly placed
507 sections and they are PROVIDEd rather than being defined.
508
509 * When an ELF section named .gnu.warning is encountered in an input file, the
510 contents of the section are displayed as an error message, and the section is
511 not copied into the output file. This is used by glibc.
512
513 * When an ELF section named .gnu.warning.SYMBOL is encountered in an input
514 file, and the symbol SYMBOL is referenced by some object file, the contents of
515 the section are displayed as an error message. The section is not copied into
516 the output file, unless doing a relocatable or shared link. This is used by
517 glibc.
518
519 * New options -split-by-reloc and -split-by-file.
520
521 * The linker now supports linking PIC compiled code on SPARC SunOS. It can
522 also create SPARC SunOS shared libraries, and, like the native SunOS linker,
523 will do so whenever there is an undefined symbol in the link and neither the -e
524 nor the -r option was used.
525
526 * The -rpath option may be used on SunOS to set the list of directories to be
527 searched at run time. This overrides the default of building the list from the
528 -L options.
529
530 * The COFF linker now combines debugging information for structs, unions, and
531 enums, so that even if the same type is defined in multiple input files it will
532 only be defined once in the output file. The --traditional-format switch will
533 prevent this optimization.
534
535 Changes in version 2.5:
536
537 * The linker now supports linking against SunOS shared libraries. It still can
538 not link SunOS PIC (Position Independent Code) files, so it can not be used to
539 generate shared libraries.
540
541 * The linker now supports linking against ELF shared libraries for the i386
542 (UnixWare) and SPARC (Solaris). It can also link ELF PIC files, and can be
543 used to generate shared libraries. Shared library generation is not well
544 tested; please report any problems encountered. The linker is now enabled for
545 Solaris again.
546
547 * Eric Youngdale has contributed Linux support code, including linking against
548 Linux a.out shared libraries. The linker produces Linux QMAGIC binaries.
549
550 * The ELF backend has been converted to the new linker code. To use the new
551 ELF linker, each particular target requires a relocation function. So far,
552 this function has been written for i386 (UnixWare), SPARC (Solaris) MIPS (Irix
553 5), and HPPA ELF targets.
554
555 * The -( (--start-group) and -) (--end-group) options have been added to
556 support searching a group of archives as though they were a single archive.
557 This can also be used in a linker script, as GROUP ( files ).
558
559 * When a file is named on the command line, and the linker does not recognize
560 it as an object file, the linker will now treat the file as a linker script
561 file. A linker script named in this way augments, but does not replace, the
562 default linker script.
563
564 * The -warn-once option was added. It causes the linker to only warn once per
565 undefined symbol, rather than once per reference.
566
567 * The COFF backend has been converted to the new linker code. As with ELF, to
568 use the new linker, each particular target requires a relocation function. So
569 far, this function has been written for the i386, m68k, a29k and SH targets.
570
571 * The -V flag was made a synonym for -v, for SVR4 compatibility. The old -V
572 behaviour is available via --verbose.
573
574 Changes in version 2.4:
575
576 * New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor. For a.out and ecoff
577 formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time
578 and memory used while linking; slightly poorer performance than
579 before for formats not converted yet.
580
581 * Command-line parsing is no longer done with flex. This means
582 oddball characters in filenames won't get treated as argument
583 separators.
584
585 * HP-PA ELF support, by Jeff Law. (No SOM support yet.)
586
587 * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie.
588
589 * Irix 4 shared libraries are now supported (Irix 5 uses ELF, and ELF shared
590 libraries are not yet supported).
591
592 * COFF shared libraries (as on SCO) should work as well.
593
594 * The linker is disabled for Solaris. (Actually, it was in 2.3 also, I just
595 forgot to note it.) Some of their C library routines don't work when
596 statically linked, and the GNU linker doesn't support dynamic linking yet.
597
598 Changes in version 2.3:
599
600 * Weak symbols are now supported.
601
602 * ELF support has been added. The linker has been bootstrapped on
603 UnixWare and Solaris.
604
605 * Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
606
607 Changes in version 2.2:
608
609 * The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string
610 table size. The effect of this is that files linked from many input
611 files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical
612 static symbols) should be much smaller.
613
614 Changes in version 2.1:
615
616 * The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.
617
618 * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the
619 other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.
620
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