Revert "2.41 Release sources"

[thirdparty/binutils-gdb.git] / binutils / doc / binutils.texi

diff --git a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
index 8314cb57562c187391bb4a9837208ebb6f66a51e..9f80f398c9de95ef0f83e25241889e8878ec8ba3 100644 (file)
--- a/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
+++ b/binutils/doc/binutils.texi
@@ -1626,6 +1626,11 @@ commands.  If the input was '12345678' then the outputs would be
 Set the access and modification dates of the output file to be the same
 as those of the input file.
 
+This option also copies the date stored in a PE format file's header,
+unless the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable is defined.  If it
+is defined then this variable will be used as the date stored in the
+header, interpreted as the number of seconds since the Unix epoch.
+
 @item -D
 @itemx --enable-deterministic-archives
 @cindex deterministic archives
@@ -1745,13 +1750,14 @@ Set the flags for any sections matching @var{sectionpattern}.  The
 @var{flags} argument is a comma separated string of flag names.  The
 recognized names are @samp{alloc}, @samp{contents}, @samp{load},
 @samp{noload}, @samp{readonly}, @samp{code}, @samp{data}, @samp{rom},
-@samp{exclude}, @samp{share}, and @samp{debug}.  You can set the
-@samp{contents} flag for a section which does not have contents, but it
-is not meaningful to clear the @samp{contents} flag of a section which
-does have contents--just remove the section instead.  Not all flags are
-meaningful for all object file formats.  In particular the
-@samp{share} flag is only meaningful for COFF format files and not for
-ELF format files.
+@samp{exclude}, @samp{share}, @samp{debug}, and @samp{large}.
+You can set the @samp{contents} flag for a section which does not have
+contents, but it is not meaningful to clear the @samp{contents} flag of a
+section which does have contents--just remove the section instead.  Not all
+flags are meaningful for all object file formats.  In particular the
+@samp{share} flag is only meaningful for COFF format files and not for ELF
+format files.  The ELF x86-64 specific flag @samp{large} corresponds to
+SHF_X86_64_LARGE.
 
 @item --set-section-alignment @var{sectionpattern}=@var{align}
 Set the alignment for any sections matching @var{sectionpattern}.