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   2 * Add ability to set section flags and types via numeric values for ELF
   3   based targets.
   4
   5 * Add a configure option --enable-x86-relax-relocations to decide whether
   6   x86 assembler should generate relax relocations by default.  Default to
   7   yes, except for x86 Solaris targets older than Solaris 12.
   8
   9 * New command line option -mrelax-relocations= for x86 target to control
  10   whether to generate relax relocations.
  11
  12 * New command line option -mfence-as-lock-add=yes for x86 target to encode
  13   lfence, mfence and sfence as "lock addl $0x0, (%[re]sp)".
  14
  15 * Add assembly-time relaxation option for ARC cpus.
  16
  17 Changes in 2.26:
  18
  19 * Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,gas} to
  20   decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default.
  21
  22 * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures.  Remove
  23   assembler support for Argonaut RISC architectures.
  24
  25 * Symbol and label names can now be enclosed in double quotes (") which allows
  26   them to contain characters that are not part of valid symbol names in high
  27   level languages.
  28
  29 * Added the correctly spelled -march=armv6kz, for ARMv6KZ support.  The
  30   previous spelling, -march=armv6zk, is still accepted.
  31
  32 * Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the Aarch64 port.
  33   Support for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD, LOR and PAN architecture
  34   extensions has also been added to the Aarch64 port.
  35
  36 * Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the ARM port.  Support
  37   for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD and PAN architecture extensions has also
  38   been added to the ARM port.
  39
  40 * Extend --compress-debug-sections option to support
  41   --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF
  42   targets.
  43
  44 * --compress-debug-sections is turned on for Linux/x86 by default.
  45
  46 Changes in 2.25:
  47
  48 * Add support for the AVR Tiny microcontrollers.
  49
  50 * Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k.
  51
  52 * Enhanced the ARM port to accept the assembler output from the CodeComposer
  53   Studio tool.  Support is enabled via the new command line option -mccs.
  54
  55 * Add support for the Andes NDS32.
  56
  57 Changes in 2.24:
  58
  59 * Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor.
  60
  61 * Add -gdwarf-sections command line option to enable per-code-section
  62   generation of DWARF .debug_line sections.
  63
  64 * Add support for Altera Nios II.
  65
  66 * Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor.
  67
  68 * Add support for the v850e3v5.
  69
  70 * Remove assembler support for MIPS ECOFF targets.
  71
  72 Changes in 2.23:
  73
  74 * Add support for the 64-bit ARM architecture: AArch64.
  75
  76 * Add support for S12X processor.
  77
  78 * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture.
  79
  80 * Add support for the Freescale XGATE architecture.
  81
  82 * Add support for .bundle_align_mode, .bundle_lock, and .bundle_unlock
  83   directives.  These are currently available only for x86 and ARM targets.
  84
  85 * Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture.
  86
  87 * Add support for the Adapteva EPIPHANY architecture.
  88
  89 * For x86, allow 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax.
  90
  91 Changes in 2.22:
  92
  93 * Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures.
  94
  95 Changes in 2.21:
  96
  97 * Gas no longer requires doubling of ampersands in macros.
  98
  99 * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.
 100
 101 * GAS now understands an extended syntax in the .section directive flags
 102   for COFF targets that allows the section's alignment to be specified.  This
 103   feature has also been backported to the 2.20 release series, starting with
 104   2.20.1.
 105
 106 * Add support for the Renesas RX processor.
 107
 108 * New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests
 109   compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output
 110   file.  Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and
 111   gold, but not currently by Gnu ld.
 112
 113 Changes in 2.20:
 114
 115 * Added support for v850e2 and v850e2v3.
 116
 117 * GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type
 118   pseudo op.  It marks the symbol as being globally unique in the entire
 119   process.
 120
 121 * ARM assembler now supports .inst[.nw] pseudo-ops to insert opcodes specified
 122   in binary rather than text.
 123
 124 * Add support for common symbol alignment to PE formats.
 125
 126 * Add support for the new discriminator column in the DWARF line table,
 127   with a discriminator operand for the .loc directive.
 128
 129 * Add support for Sunplus score architecture.
 130
 131 * The .type pseudo-op now accepts a type of STT_GNU_IFUNC which can be used to
 132   indicate that if the symbol is the target of a relocation, its value should
 133   not be use.  Instead the function should be invoked and its result used as
 134   the value.
 135
 136 * Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture.
 137
 138 * Add support for Xilinx MicroBlaze architecture.
 139
 140 Changes in 2.19:
 141
 142 * New pseudo op .cfi_val_encoded_addr, to record constant addresses in unwind
 143   tables without runtime relocation.
 144
 145 * New command line option, -h-tick-hex, for sh, m32c, and h8/300 targets, which
 146   adds compatibility with H'00 style hex constants.
 147
 148 * New command line option, -msse-check=[none|error|warning], for x86
 149   targets.
 150
 151 * New sub-option added to the assembler's -a command line switch to
 152   generate a listing output.  The 'g' sub-option will insert into the listing
 153   various information about the assembly, such as assembler version, the
 154   command line options used, and a time stamp.
 155
 156 * New command line option -msse2avx for x86 target to encode SSE
 157   instructions with VEX prefix.
 158
 159 * Add Intel XSAVE, EPT, MOVBE, AES, PCLMUL, AVX/FMA support for x86 target.
 160
 161 * New command line options, -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mtune=CPU,
 162   -mmnemonic=[att|intel], -msyntax=[att|intel], -mindex-reg,
 163   -mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc, for x86 targets.
 164
 165 * Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new
 166   pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64.
 167
 168 * Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port.
 169
 170 Changes in 2.18:
 171
 172 * The GAS sources are now released under the GPLv3.
 173
 174 * Support for the National Semiconductor CR16 target has been added.
 175
 176 * Added gas .reloc pseudo.  This is a low-level interface for creating
 177   relocations.
 178
 179 * Add support for x86_64 PE+ target.
 180
 181 * Add support for Score target.
 182
 183 Changes in 2.17:
 184
 185 * Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems.
 186
 187 * Support for ms2 architecture has been added.
 188
 189 * Support for the Z80 processor family has been added.
 190
 191 * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra
 192   switches can be read from <file>.
 193
 194 * The SH target supports a new command line switch --enable-reg-prefix which,
 195   if enabled, will allow register names to be optionally prefixed with a $
 196   character.  This allows register names to be distinguished from label names.
 197
 198 * Macros with a variable number of arguments are now supported. See the
 199   documentation for how this works.
 200
 201 * Added --reduce-memory-overheads switch to reduce the size of the hash
 202   tables used, at the expense of longer assembly times, and
 203   --hash-size=<NUMBER> to set the size of the hash tables used by gas.
 204
 205 * Macro names and macro parameter names can now be any identifier that would
 206   also be legal as a symbol elsewhere. For macro parameter names, this is
 207   known to cause problems in certain sources when the respective target uses
 208   characters inconsistently, and thus macro parameter references may no longer
 209   be recognized as such (see the documentation for details).
 210
 211 * Support the .f_floating, .d_floating, .g_floating and .h_floating directives
 212   for the VAX target in order to be more compatible with the VAX MACRO
 213   assembler.
 214
 215 * New command line option -mtune=[itanium1|itanium2] for IA64 targets.
 216
 217 Changes in 2.16:
 218
 219 * Redefinition of macros now results in an error.
 220
 221 * New command line option -mhint.b=[ok|warning|error] for IA64 targets.
 222
 223 * New command line option -munwind-check=[warning|error] for IA64
 224   targets.
 225
 226 * The IA64 port now uses automatic dependency violation removal as its default
 227   mode.
 228
 229 * Port to MAXQ processor contributed by HCL Tech.
 230
 231 * Added support for generating unwind tables for ARM ELF targets.
 232
 233 * Add a -g command line option to generate debug information in the target's
 234   preferred debug format.
 235
 236 * Support for the crx-elf target added.
 237
 238 * Support for the sh-symbianelf target added.
 239
 240 * Added a pseudo-op (.secrel32) to generate 32 bit section relative relocations
 241   on pe[i]-i386; required for this target's DWARF 2 support.
 242
 243 * Support for Motorola MCF521x/5249/547x/548x added.
 244
 245 * Support for ColdFire EMAC instructions added and Motorola syntax for MAC/EMAC
 246   instrucitons.
 247
 248 * New command line option -mno-shared for MIPS ELF targets.
 249
 250 * New command line option --alternate and pseudo-ops .altmacro and .noaltmacro
 251   added to enter (and leave) alternate macro syntax mode.
 252
 253 Changes in 2.15:
 254
 255 * The MIPS -membedded-pic option (Embedded-PIC code generation) is
 256   deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
 257
 258 * Added PIC m32r Linux (ELF) and support to M32R assembler.
 259
 260 * Added support for ARM V6.
 261
 262 * Added support for sh4a and variants.
 263
 264 * Support for Renesas M32R2 added.
 265
 266 * Limited support for Mapping Symbols as specified in the ARM ELF
 267   specification has been added to the arm assembler.
 268
 269 * On ARM architectures, added a new gas directive ".unreq" that undoes
 270   definitions created by ".req".
 271
 272 * Support for Motorola ColdFire MCF528x added.
 273
 274 * Added --gstabs+ switch to enable the generation of STABS debug format
 275   information with GNU extensions.
 276
 277 * Added support for MIPS64 Release 2.
 278
 279 * Added support for v850e1.
 280
 281 * Added -n switch for x86 assembler.  By default, x86 GAS replaces
 282   multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code sections
 283   with multi-byte nop instructions such as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi.  This
 284   switch disables the optimization.
 285
 286 * Removed -n option from MIPS assembler.  It was not useful, and confused the
 287   existing -non_shared option.
 288
 289 Changes in 2.14:
 290
 291 * Added support for MIPS32 Release 2.
 292
 293 * Added support for Xtensa architecture.
 294
 295 * Support for Intel's iWMMXt processor (an ARM variant) added.
 296
 297 * An assembler test generator has been contributed and an example file that
 298   uses it (gas/testsuite/gas/all/test-gen.c and test-exmaple.c).
 299
 300 * Support for SH2E added.
 301
 302 * GASP has now been removed.
 303
 304 * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of
 305   DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal.
 306
 307 * Support for the Ubicom IP2xxx microcontroller added.
 308
 309 Changes in 2.13:
 310
 311 * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
 312   and FR500 included.
 313
 314 * Support for DLX processor added.
 315
 316 * GASP has now been deprecated and will be removed in a future release.  Use
 317   the macro facilities in GAS instead.
 318
 319 * GASP now correctly parses floating point numbers. Unless the base is
 320   explicitly specified, they are interpreted as decimal numbers regardless of
 321   the currently specified base.
 322
 323 Changes in 2.12:
 324
 325 * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
 326
 327 * Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores.
 328
 329 * The ARM assembler now accepts -march=..., -mcpu=... and -mfpu=... for
 330   specifying the target instruction set.  The old method of specifying the
 331   target processor has been deprecated, but is still accepted for
 332   compatibility.
 333
 334 * Support for the VFP floating-point instruction set has been added to
 335   the ARM assembler.
 336
 337 * New psuedo op: .incbin to include a set of binary data at a given point
 338   in the assembly.  Contributed by Anders Norlander.
 339
 340 * The MIPS assembler now accepts -march/-mtune. -mcpu has been deprecated
 341   but still works for compatability.
 342
 343 * The MIPS assembler no longer issues a warning by default when it
 344   generates a nop instruction from a macro. The new command line option
 345   -n will turn on the warning.
 346
 347 Changes in 2.11:
 348
 349 * Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff.
 350
 351 * x86 gas now supports the full Pentium4 instruction set.
 352
 353 * Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs.
 354
 355 * Support for Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12.
 356
 357 * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C54x (tic54x).
 358
 359 * Support for IA-64.
 360
 361 * Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt.
 362
 363 * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
 364
 365 * x86 gas has a new .arch pseudo op to specify the target CPU architecture.
 366
 367 * x86 gas -q command line option quietens warnings about register size changes
 368   due to suffix, indirect jmp/call without `*', stand-alone prefixes, and
 369   translating various deprecated floating point instructions.
 370
 371 Changes in 2.10:
 372
 373 * Support for the ARM msr instruction was changed to only allow an immediate
 374   operand when altering the flags field.
 375
 376 * Support for ATMEL AVR.
 377
 378 * Support for IBM 370 ELF.  Somewhat experimental.
 379
 380 * Support for numbers with suffixes.
 381
 382 * Added support for breaking to the end of repeat loops.
 383
 384 * Added support for parallel instruction syntax (DOUBLEBAR_PARALLEL).
 385
 386 * New .elseif pseudo-op added.
 387
 388 * New --fatal-warnings option.
 389
 390 * picoJava architecture support added.
 391
 392 * Motorola MCore 210 processor support added.
 393
 394 * A new pseudo-op .intel_syntax has been implemented to allow gas to parse i386
 395   assembly programs with intel syntax.
 396
 397 * New pseudo-ops .func,.endfunc to aid in debugging user-written assembler code.
 398
 399 * Added -gdwarf2 option to generate DWARF 2 debugging information.
 400
 401 * Full 16-bit mode support for i386.
 402
 403 * Greatly improved instruction operand checking for i386.  This change will
 404   produce errors or warnings on incorrect assembly code that previous versions
 405   of gas accepted.  If you get unexpected messages from code that worked with
 406   older versions of gas, please double check the code before reporting a bug.
 407
 408 * Weak symbol support added for COFF targets.
 409
 410 * Mitsubishi D30V support added.
 411
 412 * Texas Instruments c80 (tms320c80) support added.
 413
 414 * i960 ELF support added.
 415
 416 * ARM ELF support added.
 417
 418 Changes in 2.9:
 419
 420 * Texas Instruments c30 (tms320c30) support added.
 421
 422 * The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs
 423   and gcc 2.8.  The new --traditional-format option disables this optimization.
 424
 425 * Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information.
 426
 427 * The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a
 428   listing.
 429
 430 * Added -MD option to print dependencies.
 431
 432 Changes in 2.8:
 433
 434 * BeOS support added.
 435
 436 * MIPS16 support added.
 437
 438 * Motorola ColdFire 5200 support added (configure for m68k and use -m5200).
 439
 440 * Alpha/VMS support added.
 441
 442 * m68k options --base-size-default-16, --base-size-default-32,
 443   --disp-size-default-16, and --disp-size-default-32 added.
 444
 445 * The alignment directives now take an optional third argument, which is the
 446   maximum number of bytes to skip.  If doing the alignment would require
 447   skipping more than the given number of bytes, the alignment is not done at
 448   all.
 449
 450 * The ELF assembler has a new pseudo-op, .symver, used for symbol versioning.
 451
 452 * The -a option takes a new suboption, c (e.g., -alc), to skip false
 453   conditionals in listings.
 454
 455 * Added new pseudo-op, .equiv; it's like .equ, except that it is an error if
 456   the symbol is already defined.
 457
 458 Changes in 2.7:
 459
 460 * The PowerPC assembler now allows the use of symbolic register names (r0,
 461   etc.) if -mregnames is used.  Symbolic names preceded by a '%' (%r0, etc.)
 462   can be used any time.  PowerPC 860 move to/from SPR instructions have been
 463   added.
 464
 465 * Alpha Linux (ELF) support added.
 466
 467 * PowerPC ELF support added.
 468
 469 * m68k Linux (ELF) support added.
 470
 471 * i960 Hx/Jx support added.
 472
 473 * i386/PowerPC gnu-win32 support added.
 474
 475 * SCO ELF support added.  For OpenServer 5 targets (i386-unknown-sco3.2v5) the
 476   default is to build COFF-only support.  To get a set of tools that generate
 477   ELF (they'll understand both COFF and ELF), you must configure with
 478   target=i386-unknown-sco3.2v5elf.
 479
 480 * m88k-motorola-sysv3* support added.
 481
 482 Changes in 2.6:
 483
 484 * Gas now directly supports macros, without requiring GASP.
 485
 486 * Gas now has an MRI assembler compatibility mode.  Use -M or --mri to select
 487   MRI mode.  The pseudo-op ``.mri 1'' will switch into the MRI mode until the
 488   ``.mri 0'' is seen; this can be convenient for inline assembler code.
 489
 490 * Added --defsym SYM=VALUE option.
 491
 492 * Added -mips4 support to MIPS assembler.
 493
 494 * Added PIC support to Solaris and SPARC SunOS 4 assembler.
 495
 496 Changes in 2.4:
 497
 498 * Converted this directory to use an autoconf-generated configure script.
 499
 500 * ARM support, from Richard Earnshaw.
 501
 502 * Updated VMS support, from Pat Rankin, including considerably improved
 503   debugging support.
 504
 505 * Support for the control registers in the 68060.
 506
 507 * Handles (ignores) a new directive ".this_GCC_requires_the_GNU_assembler", to
 508   provide for possible future gcc changes, for targets where gas provides some
 509   features not available in the native assembler.  If the native assembler is
 510   used, it should become obvious pretty quickly what the problem is.
 511
 512 * Usage message is available with "--help".
 513
 514 * The GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp) is included.  (Actually, it was in 2.3
 515   also, but didn't get into the NEWS file.)
 516
 517 * Weak symbol support for a.out.
 518
 519 * A bug in the listing code which could cause an infinite loop has been fixed.
 520   Bugs in listings when generating a COFF object file have also been fixed.
 521
 522 * Initial i386-svr4 PIC implementation from Eric Youngdale, based on code by
 523   Paul Kranenburg.
 524
 525 * Improved Alpha support.  Immediate constants can have a much larger range
 526   now. Support for the 21164 has been contributed by Digital.
 527
 528 * Updated ns32k (pc532-mach, netbsd532) support from Ian Dall.
 529
 530 Changes in 2.3:
 531
 532 * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie and Ken Raeburn.
 533
 534 * RS/6000 and PowerPC support by Ian Taylor.
 535
 536 * VMS command scripts (make-gas.com, config-gas.com) have been worked on a bit,
 537   based on mail received from various people.  The `-h#' option should work
 538   again too.
 539
 540 * HP-PA work, by Jeff Law.  Note, for the PA, gas-2.3 has been designed to work
 541   with gdb-4.12 and gcc-2.6.  As gcc-2.6 has not been released yet, a special
 542   version of gcc-2.5.8 has been patched to work with gas-2.3.  You can retrieve
 543   this special version of gcc-2.5.8 via anonymous ftp from jaguar.cs.utah.edu
 544   in the "dist" directory.
 545
 546 * Vax support in gas fixed for BSD, so it builds and seems to run a couple
 547   simple tests okay.  I haven't put it through extensive testing.  (GNU make is
 548   currently required for BSD 4.3 builds.)
 549
 550 * Support for the DEC Alpha, running OSF/1 (ECOFF format).  The gas support is
 551   based on code donated by CMU, which used an a.out-based format.  I'm afraid
 552   the alpha-a.out support is pretty badly mangled, and much of it removed;
 553   making it work will require rewriting it as BFD support for the format anyways.
 554
 555 * Irix 5 support.
 556
 557 * The test suites have been fixed up a bit, so that they should work with a
 558   couple different versions of expect and dejagnu.
 559
 560 * Symbols' values are now handled internally as expressions, permitting more
 561   flexibility in evaluating them in some cases.  Some details of relocation
 562   handling have also changed, and simple constant pool management has been
 563   added, to make the Alpha port easier.
 564
 565 * New option "--statistics" for printing out program run times.  This is
 566   intended to be used with the gcc "-Q" option, which prints out times spent in
 567   various phases of compilation.  (You should be able to get all of them
 568   printed out with "gcc -Q -Wa,--statistics", I think.)
 569
 570 Changes in 2.2:
 571
 572 * RS/6000 AIX and MIPS SGI Irix 5 support has been added.
 573
 574 * Configurations that are still in development (and therefore are convenient to
 575   have listed in configure.in) still get rejected without a minor change to
 576   gas/Makefile.in, so people not doing development work shouldn't get the
 577   impression that support for such configurations is actually believed to be
 578   reliable.
 579
 580 * The program name (usually "as") is printed when a fatal error message is
 581   displayed.  This should prevent some confusion about the source of occasional
 582   messages about "internal errors".
 583
 584 * ELF support is falling into place.  Support for the 386 should be working.
 585   Support for SPARC Solaris is in.  HPPA support from Utah is being integrated.
 586
 587 * Symbol values are maintained as expressions instead of being immediately
 588   boiled down to add-symbol, sub-symbol, and constant.  This permits slightly
 589   more complex calculations involving symbols whose values are not alreadey
 590   known.
 591
 592 * DBX-style debugging info ("stabs") is now supported for COFF formats.
 593   If any stabs directives are seen in the source, GAS will create two new
 594   sections: a ".stab" and a ".stabstr" section.  The format of the .stab
 595   section is nearly identical to the a.out symbol format, and .stabstr is
 596   its string table.  For this to be useful, you must have configured GCC
 597   to generate stabs (by defining DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO), and must have a GDB
 598   that can use the stab sections (4.11 or later).
 599
 600 * LynxOS, on i386 and m68k platforms, is now supported.  SPARC LynxOS
 601   support is in progress.
 602
 603 Changes in 2.1:
 604
 605 * Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have been
 606   incorporated, but not well tested yet.
 607
 608 * Altered the opcode table split for m68k; it should require less VM to compile
 609   with gcc now.
 610
 611 * Some minor adjustments to add (Convergent Technologies') Miniframe support,
 612   suggested by Ronald Cole.
 613
 614 * HPPA support (running OSF only, not HPUX) has been contributed by Utah.  This
 615   includes improved ELF support, which I've started adapting for SPARC Solaris
 616   2.x.  Integration isn't completely, so it probably won't work.
 617
 618 * HP9000/300 support, donated by HP, has been merged in.
 619
 620 * Ian Taylor has finished the MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Irix) support.
 621
 622 * Better error messages for unsupported configurations (e.g., hppa-hpux).
 623
 624 * Test suite framework is starting to become reasonable.
 625
 626 Changes in 2.0:
 627
 628 * Mostly bug fixes.
 629
 630 * Some more merging of BFD and ELF code, but ELF still doesn't work.
 631
 632 Changes in 1.94:
 633
 634 * BFD merge is partly done.  Adventurous souls may try giving configure the
 635   "--with-bfd-assembler" option.  Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out
 636   format accepts it; SPARC CPU accepts it.  It's the default only for OS "elf"
 637   or "solaris".  (ELF isn't really supported yet.  It needs work.  I've got
 638   some code from Utah for HP-PA ELF, and from DG for m88k ELF, but they're not
 639   fully merged yet.)
 640
 641 * The 68K opcode table has been split in half.  It should now compile under gcc
 642   without consuming ridiculous amounts of memory.
 643
 644 * A couple data structures have been reduced in size.  This should result in
 645   saving a little bit of space at runtime.
 646
 647 * Support for MIPS, from OSF and Ralph Campbell, has been merged in.  The OSF
 648   code provided ROSE format support, which I haven't merged in yet.  (I can
 649   make it available, if anyone wants to try it out.)  Ralph's code, for BSD
 650   4.4, supports a.out format.  We don't have ECOFF support in just yet; it's
 651   coming.
 652
 653 * Support for the Hitachi H8/500 has been added.
 654
 655 * VMS host and target support should be working now, thanks chiefly to Eric
 656   Youngdale.
 657
 658 Changes in 1.93.01:
 659
 660 * For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851.
 661
 662 * For i386, .align is now power-of-two; was number-of-bytes.
 663
 664 * For m68k, "%" is now accepted before register names.  For COFF format, which
 665   doesn't use underscore prefixes for C labels, it is required, so variable "a0"
 666   can be distinguished from the register.
 667
 668 * Last public release was 1.38.  Lots of configuration changes since then, lots
 669   of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed.
 670
 671 \f
 672 Copyright (C) 2012-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 673
 674 Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
 675 are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
 676 notice and this notice are preserved.
 677
 678 Local variables:
 679 fill-column: 79
 680 End: