-*- text -*-
+* Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems.
+
+* Modify the Linux linker to seach /etc/ld.so.conf first before
+ checking default search directories for DT_NEEDED entries.
+
+* PE-COFF: Forward exports from DLL's can now be specified in .def files
+ passed directly to ld.
+
+* Support for the Z80 processor family has been added.
+
+* Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra
+ switches can be read from <file>.
+
+Changes in 2.16:
+
+* Support for the R_ARM_V4BX relocation as defined in the ARM AAELF
+ specification has been added via the --fix-v4bx command-line option.
+
+* New linker script construct AS_NEEDED(), which sets the --as-needed flag
+ for input files listed inside of it.
+
+* A new command-line option, --sysroot, can be used to override the
+ default sysroot location. It only applies to toolchains that were
+ configured using --with-sysroot.
+
+* New linker script functions: ORIGIN() and LENGTH() which return information
+ about a specified memory region.
+
+* Port to MAXQ processor contributed by HCL Tech.
+
+* Added SEGMENT_START to the linker script language to permit the user to
+ override the base address for a segment from the command-line.
+
+* ELF: --warn-shared-textrel option to warn if adding a DT_TEXTREL to a shared
+ object.
+
+* Added SORT_BY_NAME and SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT to the linker script
+ language to permit sorting sections by section name or section
+ maximum alignment.
+
+* Added a new linker command line switch, --sort-section name|alignment,
+ to sort sections by section name or maximum alignment.
+
+* ELF: --add-needed/--no-add-needed options to control if a DT_NEEDED tag
+ should be added when a shared library comes from DT_NEEDED tags.
+
+* Support for the crx-elf target added.
+
+* Support for the sh-symbianelf target added.
+
+* A new linker command line switch has been added which allows the hash table
+ size to be set to a suitable prime value near to its argument. This switch
+ is --hash-size=<NUMBER>. Also if the switch --reduce-memory-overheads is
+ used, and --hash-size has not been used, then the default value will be set
+ to 1021.
+
+* Linker map files are now generated with an O(N) algorithm for finding symbols
+ that are defined in each section. This uses about 40% more memory for
+ symbols than the old O(N^2) algorithm. You can use the new
+ --reduce-memory-overheads option to select the old algorithm; this option
+ might also be used in the future to select similar tradeoffs.
+
+Changes in 2.15:
+
+* ELF: --as-needed/--no-as-needed options to control if a DT_NEEDED tag should
+ be added only when a shared library is referenced.
+
+* PE: --large-address-aware option to indicate executables support virtual
+ addresses greater than 2 gigabytes.
+
+* DWARF 2 support for i386pe added.
+
+* The linker script operator DEFINED() will now yield 1 only for a symbol that
+ is defined before the statement where DEFINED is used.
+
+* The MIPS --embedded-relocs (used to embed relocations into binaries for
+ Embedded-PIC code) is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
+
+* cr16c support added by NSC.
+
+* m32r Linux (ELF) support added by Renesas.
+
+* Improved linker's handling of unresolved symbols. The switch
+ --unresolved-symbols=<method> has been added to tell the linker when it
+ should report them and the switch --warn-unresolved-symbols has been added to
+ make reports be issued as warning messages rather than errors.
+
+Changes in 2.14:
+
+* Added support for Xtensa architecture.
+
+* Added --with-sysroot configure switch to specify a target system root, for
+ linking against a target filesystem image.
+
+* Added --accept-unknown-linker-format to restore old linker behaviour (pre
+ 2.14) of silently accepting and linking in any files in an unknown binary
+ file format.
+
+* Added --no-omagic to undo the effects of the -N option.
+
+* Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of
+ DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal.
+
+* Added --with-lib-path configure switch to specify default value for
+ LIB_PATH.
+
+* ARM port to QNX operating system added by Graeme Peterson.
+
+* IP2K support added by Denis Chertykov.
+
+Changes in 2.13:
+
+* Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
+ and FR500 included.
+
+Changes in version 2.13:
+
+* DEC VAX ELF support, by Matt Thomas.
+
+Changes in version 2.12:
+
+* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
+
+* Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores.
+
+* Support for -z nocopyreloc in the x86 ELF linker, which disables
+ production of copy relocs. Warning: using this option may result in
+ non-sharable applications.
+
+* Support for -z combreloc in the ELF linker, which puts dynamic
+ relocations against the same symbol together, so that dynamic linker
+ can use an one-entry symbol lookup cache.
+
+* Support for ELF SHF_MERGE section merging, by Jakub Jelinek.
+
+Changes in version 2.11:
+
+* Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs.
+
* Support added for eliminating duplicate DWARF2 debug information by
having the compiler generate the information in sections called
.gnu.linkonce.wi.XXXX where XXXX is a checksum for the contents. The
* Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
+* Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff.
+
Changes in version 2.10:
* Added AT> to the linker script language to allow load-time allocation of
wildcard file names.
* Added -O option to optimize linker output (as of this writing, this only
-affects ELF shared library generation).
+ affects ELF shared library generation).
* The -e option now accepts a number as well as a symbol name.
* When an ELF section named .gnu.warning.SYMBOL is encountered in an input
file, and the symbol SYMBOL is referenced by some object file, the contents of
the section are displayed as an error message. The section is not copied into
-the output file, unless doing a relocateable or shared link. This is used by
+the output file, unless doing a relocatable or shared link. This is used by
glibc.
* New options -split-by-reloc and -split-by-file.
* The linker now supports linking against SunOS shared libraries. It still can
not link SunOS PIC (Position Independent Code) files, so it can not be used to
-generate shared libaries.
+generate shared libraries.
* The linker now supports linking against ELF shared libraries for the i386
(UnixWare) and SPARC (Solaris). It can also link ELF PIC files, and can be
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