From: H.J. Lu Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:54:20 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Remove release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2 X-Git-Tag: users/hjl/linux/release/2.28.51.0.1^0 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b8cc0ceb40868b1d4d42854e4d89372aa5aef921;p=thirdparty%2Fbinutils-gdb.git Remove release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2 --- diff --git a/release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2 b/release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2 deleted file mode 100644 index 4ca9d9f8a14..00000000000 --- a/release.binutils-2.26.51.0.2 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1332 +0,0 @@ -This is the beta release of binutils 2.26.51.0.2 for Linux, which is -based on binutils 2016 0711 master branch on sourceware.org plus -various changes. It is purely for Linux. - -All relevant patches in patches have been applied to the source tree. -You can take a look at patches/README to see what have been applied and -in what order they have been applied. - -Starting from the 2.23.52.0.2 release, when creating executables, BFD -linker will issue an error for undefined weak reference which is -defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED. Previously BFD linker -will silently include the shared library from DT_NEEDED. - -Starting from the 2.21.51.0.3 release, you must remove .ctors/.dtors -section sentinels when building glibc or other C run-time libraries. -Otherwise, you will run into: - -http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12343 - -Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, BFD linker has the working LTO -plugin support. It can be used with GCC 4.5 and above. For GCC 4.5, you -need to configure GCC with --enable-gold to enable LTO plugin support. - -Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, binutils fully supports compressed -debug sections. However, compressed debug section isn't turned on by -default in assembler. I am planning to turn it on for x86 assembler in -the future release, which may lead to the Linux kernel bug messages like - -WARNING: lib/ts_kmp.o (.zdebug_aranges): unexpected non-allocatable section. - -But the resulting kernel works fine. - -Starting from the 2.20.51.0.4 release, no diffs against the previous -release will be provided. - -You can enable both gold and bfd ld with --enable-gold=both. Gold will -be installed as ld.gold and bfd ld will be installed as ld.bfd. By -default, ld.bfd will be installed as ld. You can use the configure -option, --enable-gold=both/gold to choose gold as the default linker, -ld. IA-32 binary and X64_64 binary tar balls are configured with ---enable-gold=both/ld --enable-plugins --enable-threads. - -Starting from the 2.25.51.0.2 release, the x86 assembler will optimize -out relocations against defined non-weak global branch targets with -default visibility by default. This Linux kernel patch is needed to -create a working x86 Linux kernel if it hasn't been updated to support -the newer assembler: - -diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S -index ae6588b..b91a00c 100644 ---- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S -+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S -@@ -339,8 +339,8 @@ early_idt_handlers: - i = i + 1 - .endr - --/* This is global to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */ --ENTRY(early_idt_handler) -+/* This is weak to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */ -+WEAK(early_idt_handler) - cld - - cmpl $2,(%rsp) # X86_TRAP_NMI --- - -Starting from the 2.18.50.0.4 release, the x86 assembler no longer -accepts - - fnstsw %eax - -fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax and the upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged. -Please use - - fnstsw %ax - -Starting from the 2.17.50.0.4 release, the default output section LMA -(load memory address) has changed for allocatable sections from being -equal to VMA (virtual memory address), to keeping the difference between -LMA and VMA the same as the previous output section in the same region. - -For - -.data.init_task : { *(.data.init_task) } - -LMA of .data.init_task section is equal to its VMA with the old linker. -With the new linker, it depends on the previous output section. You -can use - -.data.init_task : AT (ADDR(.data.init_task)) { *(.data.init_task) } - -to ensure that LMA of .data.init_task section is always equal to its -VMA. The linker script in the older 2.6 x86-64 kernel depends on the -old behavior. You can add AT (ADDR(section)) to force LMA of -.data.init_task section equal to its VMA. It will work with both old -and new linkers. The x86-64 kernel linker script in kernel 2.6.13 and -above is OK. - -The new x86_64 assembler no longer accepts - - monitor %eax,%ecx,%edx - -You should use - - monitor %rax,%ecx,%edx - -or - monitor - -which works with both old and new x86_64 assemblers. They should -generate the same opcode. - -The new i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving -between a segment register and a 32bit memory location, i.e., - - movl (%eax),%ds - movl %ds,(%eax) - -To generate instructions for moving between a segment register and a -16bit memory location without the 16bit operand size prefix, 0x66, - - mov (%eax),%ds - mov %ds,(%eax) - -should be used. It will work with both new and old assemblers. The -assembler starting from 2.16.90.0.1 will also support - - movw (%eax),%ds - movw %ds,(%eax) - -without the 0x66 prefix. Patches for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels are -available at - -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch - -The ia64 assembler is now defaulted to tune for Itanium 2 processors. -To build a kernel for Itanium 1 processors, you will need to add - -ifeq ($(CONFIG_ITANIUM),y) - CFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1 - AFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1 -endif - -to arch/ia64/Makefile in your kernel source tree. - -Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.26.51.0.2 to -hjl.tools@gmail.com - -and - -http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/ - -Changes from binutils 2.26.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2016 0711. -2. Add support for Intel RDPID instructions. -3. Add --enable-relro and make it the default for Linux targets. -PR 20283. -4. Make --enable-compressed-debug-sections=gas the default for -Linux/x86 targets. -5. Add --no-pad-sections option to gas. -6. Add -z noreloc-overflow option to x86-64 ld. PR 19807. -7. Speedup orphan placement for relocatable link. PR 19739. -8. Fix .weakref directive with defined symbol. PR 19498. -9. Fix assembler fegmentation fault on bad input. PR 19896. -10. Set sh_entsize on .init_array, .fini_array and .preinit_array -sections. PR 20118. -11. Treat common symbol in executable as definition. PR 19579. -12. Allow zero length archive elements. PR 19775. -13. Fix an --as-needed ld regression. PR 19886. -14. Don't create dynamic sections for relocatable output. PR 19789. -15. Always count the NULL entry in dynamic symbol table. -16. Handle symbols defined/referenced only within IR. PR 20070. -17. Enable 64-bit archives in ar and ranlib. PR 14625. -18. Improve symbol choice with objdump. PR 20337. -19. Don't retrieve version info from synthetic symbols. PR 20304. -20. Update objcopy to check corrupt binary. PRs 20089/20096. -21. Check corrupt binary with invalid sh_link field. PR 20063. -22. Strip global symbol defined in discarded section. PR 17550. -23. Fix a linker crash with -shared --gc-sections -u. PR 20306. -24. Properly handle dynamic reloc against normal symbol. PR 19939. -25. Update ld to warn for duplicated plugin. PR 20321. -26. Updated ld to use the IR symbol table for the IR input object. PRs -18250/20267. -27. Update ld to properly handle common symbol with LTO. PR 20276. -28. Handle thin archives with LTO. PR 20241. -29. Don't claim new IR symbols after all IR symbols have been claimed. -PR 20103. -30. Handle indirect branches for AMD64 and Intel64 in x86-64 assembler -and disassembler. PR binutis/18386. -31. Don't use vec_disp8 encoding with the .d32 suffix. PR 19909. -32. Improve x86-64 disassembler. PRs 19983/19984. -33. Improve ".arch .noXXX" directives in x86 assembler. PR 20145. -34. Require another match for AVX512VL in x86 assembler. PR 20140. -35. Enable VREX for AVX512 directives in x86 assembler. PR 20141. -36. Preserve addend for R_386_GOT32 and R_X86_64_GOT32 in x86 assembler. -PR 19600. -37. Update ld to remove PLT entry for IFUNC function via GOT. PR 20253. -38. Don't check undefined symbols for relocations against x86 IFUNC -symbols. -39. Update x86 ld to skip relocations in non-loaded, non-alloced sections. -40. Update i386 ld to handle "op $imm, bar@GOT". PR 20244. -41. Update x86 ld to support dynamic TLS models with indirect call. -42. Properly override IFUNC symbols in executales. PRs 16467/20159. -43. Don't convert R_386_GOT32 relocation. PR 20117. -44. Don't convert GOTPCREL relocation against large section. PR 20093. -45. Updated x86-64 ld to Skip debug sections when estimating distances. -PR 20006. -46. Check run-time R_X86_64_32 relocation overflow. PR 19969. -47. Update x86 ld to check ELF relocs after opening all input files. -48. Updated x86 ld to bind defined symbol locally in PIE. PR 19827. -49. Updated x86 ld to handle local IFUNC symbols in shared object. PR -19784. -50. Improve gold support. -51. Improve COFF support. -52. Improve freebsd support. -53. Improve Solaris support. -54. Add dlx support. -55. Improve arc support. -56. Improve arm support. -57. Improve avr support. -58. Improve bfin upport. -59. Improve ft32 support. -60. Improve hppa support. -61. Improve msp430 support. -62. Improve mips support. -63. Improve ppc support. -64. Improve s390 support. -65. Improve sparc support. -66. Improve z8k support. - -Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2016 0226. -2. Add support for Intel rdpkru and wrpkru instructions. -3. Fix wrong GOT offset used with GOT relocation in i386 linker. PR -19601. -4. Fix AVX512 register number check in x86 assembler. -5. Fix a segmentation fault with IFUNC in x86 linker. PR 19539. -6. Optimize local symbol address load for x86 ld. PR 19609. -7. Make behaviors of dynamic executable and position independent -executable predictable with mixed PIC and non-PIC references to -undefined weak symbols. Remove unused dynamic symbols. Add --z nodynamic-undefined-weak to x86 ELF linker. PRs 19636/19704/19719. -8. Add -mrelax-relocations= to x86 assembler. PR 19520. -9. Add -mfence-as-lock-add= to x86 assembler. -10. Improve 32-bit x86 disassembler with buffer address > 2GB. -11. Speedup x86-64 linker optimization. PR 19542. -12. Fix a linker regression with linker-defined versioned symbol. PR -19698. -13. Enable -E/--export-dynamic for static link. PR 19617. -14. Re-enable -Bsymbolic and -Bsymbolic-functions for PIE. PR 19615. -15. Remove extra section symbols with objcopy/strip. PR 19547. -16. Don't add DT_NEEDED for unmatched symbol. PR 19553. -17. Support gnu_debuglink with compressed debug sections. PR 19523. -18. Fix STT_COMMON support. Add -z common/-z nocommon options to ELF -linker. Add --elf-stt-common= option to ELF objcopy. PR 19645. -19. Improve LTO for relocatable link. PR 19317. -20. Improve LTO for mingw. PR 18199. -21. Improve ar. PR 19256. -22. Improve addr2line. PR 19315. -23. Improve gold support. -24. Improve COFF support. -25. Improve Mach-O support. -26. Improve aarch64 support. -27. Improve arc support. -28. Improve arm support. -29. Improve m68k support. -30. Improve hppa support. -31. Improve microblaze support. -32. Improve msp430 support. -33. Improve nios2 support. -34. Improve ppc support. -35. Improve rl78 support. -36. Improve rx support. -37. Improve s390 support. -38. Improve sparc support. -39. Improve xtensa support. - -Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2015 1114. -2. Add support for Intel IA MCU psABI. -3. Implement new R_386_GOT32X, R_X86_64_GOTPCRELX and -R_X86_64_REX_GOTPCRELX relocations with linker optimization in ld. -4. Fix x86 assembler bugs. PRs 18631/18257/13571. -5. Add monitorx/mwaitx instructions to x86 assembler/disassembler. -6. Change --compress-debug-sections and --compress-debug-sections=zlib -to zlib-gabi for gas, ld and gold. -7. Fix a SHF_COMPRESSED bug. PR 18656. -8. Remove unnecessary x86 PLT entry for function pointer initialization. -PR 18900. -9. Add --enable-compressed-debug-sections to configure to enable -compressed debug sections in ld and gas by default. Currently, it -is off by default. -10. Speed up "ld -r" for x86 and ppc. -11. Improve "ld -r". PR 18867. -12. Always enable --sysroot in ld. PR 18992. -13. Remove --warn-orphan and --orphan-handling for ld. -14. Reduce binary size after linking sections with "a" and "wa" flags. -PR 19162. -15. Properly handle __start_* and __stop_* symbols in --gc-sections. -PRs 19161/19167. -16. Properly handle > 2GB elf file on 32bit hosts. PR 19123. -17. Properly handle R_386_PC32 and R_X86_64_PC32 relocations in non-code -sections. PR 19031. -18. Properly sort x86 IFUNC relocations. PR 18841. -19. Fix symbol versioning without PLT. PR 18718. -20. Issue an error for read-only segment with dynamic x86 IFUNC -relocations. PR 18801. -21. Skip IFUNC relocations in debug sections. PR 18808. -22. Properly merge hidden versioned symbol. PRs 18720/18785. -23. Properly copy sh_link and sh_info fields of sections for objcopy -with --only-keep-debug. -24. Don't change the default symbol for relocatable link. PR 18735. -25. Support more than one SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX sections. PR 15835. -26. Properly merge input string sections. PR 19013. -27. Don't re-export a symbol if it isn't undefined. PR 18914. -28. Fix objcopy with --pad-to= --reverse-bytes= -interleave=. PRs -19005/19020. -29. Add static PIE support to ld. -30. Fix an objdump crash. PR 18570. -31. Add --gc-sections support for COFF. PR 11539. -32. Improve DT_VERNEED and DT_VERDEF support in readelf. -33. Add --add-symbol to objcopy. -34. Add -s/--output-separator to strings. -35. Remove support for older ARC. Added support for new ARC cpus (ARC600, -ARC601, ARC700, ARCV2). -36. Add support for CloudABI on aarch64. -37. Improve gold support. -38. Improve PE support. -39. Improve aarch64 support. -40. Improve alpha support. -41. Improve arm support. -42. Improve avr support. -43. Improve cris support. -44. Improve hppa support. -45. Improve mips support. -46. Improve msp430 support. -47. Improve nios2 support. -48. Improve or1k support. -49. Improve ppc support. -50. Improve rl78 support. -51. Improve rx support. -52. Improve s390 support. -53. Improve sh support. -54. Improve v850 support. -55. Improve xtensa support. - -Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2015 0630. -2. Fix the i386/x86-64 linker regression with prelink support. Prelink -may corrupt glibc binaries created by the 2.25.51.0.2 i386/x86-64 linker: - -https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235068 - -3. Skip extra relocations in .rel.plt/.rela.plt added by the third-party -tool. PR binutils/18437. -4. Fix invalid R_X86_64_GOTPCREL -> R_X86_64_PC32 conversions. -PR ld/18591. -5. Reduce the size of ELF .strtab section with GC and suffix merging. -PR gas/18451. -6. Improve Intel syntax support in x86 assembler. -7. Add compact EH support. -8. Add --sectname-subst option to assembler. -9. Add --print-memory-usage option to bfd linker. -10. Improve gold support. -11. Improve PE support. -12. Improve aarch64 support. -13. Improve arm support. -14. Improve hppa support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve msp430 support. -17. Improve ppc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2015 0515. -2. Add support for Intel MCU psABI. -3. Add supporr for AMD znver1 processor. -4. Enable gABI compressed debug section support to as and binutils. -5. Add --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] support -to ld and gold. -6. Don't create .plt section if not needed. -7. Add branch optimization to x86 assembler. -8. Change x86 assembler to limit multi-byte nop instructions to 10 bytes. -9. Remove .note section for -march= in x86 assembler. -10. Don't change compressed input debug section names. PR binutils/18209. -11. Support copy relocation in PIE for i386. PR ld/18289. -12. Support copy relocation on protected symbols for i386 and x86-64. -PRs ld/15228/17709. -13. Don't remove _init/_fini functions with --gc-sections. PR ld/18223. -14. Don't remove .bss section with --gc-sections. PR ld/17615. -15. Don't create large padding for PT_GNU_RELRO segment. PR ld/18176. -16. Add llvm plugin support to ld. PRs ld/17878/18250. -17. Generate correct sh_info for .rel.plt/.rela.plt sections. PR ld/18169. -18. Fix PIE copy relocations with pointers on x86-64. PR ld/17827. -19. Change ld not to print newlines in INPUT statements. PRs ld/18344. -20. Support both AMD64 and Intel64 in x86-64 assembler and -disassembler. PR binutis/18386. -21. Fix x86 disassembler for rdrand/rdseed. PR binutils/17898. -22. Add -z/--decompress option to readelf. -23. Add --update-section option to objcopy. -24. Properly dump .debug_loc section. PR binutils/18374. -25. Properly dump .debug_str_offsets section. PR binutils/18218. -26. Change readelf -s --wide to issue an error. PR binutils/18101. -27. Change objcopy not to leave temporary directory in case of error. -PR binutils/17636. -28. Avoid gaps between sections and section headers when ld -s is used. -PRs ld/17773/17842. -29. Issue a warning for relocation in readonly section for -z text. -PR ld/17935. -30. Don't complain about -fPIC for undefined symbol. PR ld/17847. -31. Don't ignore undefined references produced by linker plugin. -PRs ld/12365/14272. -32. Removed undefined symbols in static executables. PR ld/4317. -33. Remove useless symbols. PRs ld/17973/17975. -34. Avoid seg fault when input relocation is incompatible with output. -PR ld/18160. -35. Fix more memory access issues. PRs ld/17512/17531. -36. Add Nuxi CloudABI support. -37. Add ft32 support. -38. Add Linux/h8300 support. -39. Improve gold support. -40. Improve COFF support. -41. Improve PE support. -42. Improve aarch64 support. -43. Improve arm support. -44. Improve avr support. -45. Improve m32c support. -46. Improve mep support. -47. Improve microblaze support. -48. Improve mips support. -49. Improve moxie support. -50. Improve msp430 support. -51. Improve nds32 support. -52. Improve pdp11 support. -53. Improve ppc support. -54. Improve rl78 support. -55. Improve rx support. -56. Improve s390 support. -57. Improve sh support. -58. Improve sh64 support. -59. Improve v850 support. -60. Improve xtensa support. - -Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2014 1224. -2. Update Intel instruction extension support to October, 2014, -including AVX512VBMI, AVX512IFMA, PCOMMIT and CLWB. -3. --compress-debug-sections is turned on for Linux/x86 assembler by -default. -4. Deprecate R_X86_64_PC32_BND and R_X86_64_PLT32_BND support. Add --z bndplt linker option to enable MPX PLT. -5. Support copy relocations in x86-64 PIE. -6. Don't output symbol version definitions for non-DT_NEEDED libs. -PR ld/16452, ld/16457. -7. Optimize out i386/x86-64 JUMP_SLOT relocation. -8. Check PC-relative offset overflow in x86-64 PLT entry. PR ld/17618. -9. Check branch displacement overflow in x86-64 PLT entry. -10. Fix many memory access issues. PRs ld/17453, binutils/17510, -binutils/17512, binutils/17531, binutils/17533, binutils/17597, -PR binutuls/17605, PR ld/17713. -11. Disallow copy relocations against protected symbols. PR ld/15228. -12. Fix an x86 assembler crash on invalid input. PR gas/17493. -12. Fix an addr2line bug. PR binutils/17541. -14. Sort relocs output by ld -r. PR ld/17666. -15. Speed up x86 PLT dump. PR binutils/17677. -16. Update x86 assembler to add REX prefix to encode R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF -for x32. PR ld/17482. -17. Run eh_frame optimisation for relocatable link. PR ld/17467. -18. Discard zero address range eh_frame FDEs. PR ld/17447. -19. Add support for more than one plugin in lib/bfd-plugins. PR ld/17422. -20. Add -D/-U options to objcopy/strip. PR binutils/17671. -21. Don't check shared libraries for .eh_frame sections nor --build-id. -PR ld/17742. -22. Fix exception frame section with static link for gold. PR gold/14675. -23. Handle stack split for x32 in gold. PR gold/17729. -24. Initial visium support. -25. Improve gold support. -26. Improve COFF support. -27. Improve aarch64 support. -28. Improve arm support. -29. Improve avr support. -30. Improve mips support. -31. Improve moxie support. -32. Improve msp430 support. -33. Improve nios2 support. -34. Improve ppc/ppc64 support. -35. Improve sparc support. -36. Improve spu support. - -Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2014 0923. -2. Update Intel AVX-512 instruction support to July, 2014. -3. Support Intel secure enclave instruction. -4. Support Intel clflushopt instruction. -5. Support Intel xsavec/xrstors instructions. -6. Fix an x86 linker crash with --just-symbols. PR ld/17306. -7. Improve x86 PLT entry matching. PR binutils/17154. -8. Fix an x86 GNU2 TLS linker bug. PR ld/17057. -9. Update x86-64 linker to create alternate PLT entries for MPX. -10. Update x86 assembler to disallow VEX/EVEX encoded instructions in -16-bit mode. PR gas/17421. -11. Improve prefix handling in x86 disassembler. PR binutils/16893. -12. Update x86 disassembler to properly handle suffix for iret and sysret -in Intel mode. -13. Update x86 disassembler to properly handle prefixes before fwait. -PR binutils/16891. -14. Fix an AVX512 gather/scatter x86 disassembler bug. PR -binutils/16490. -15. Add -momit-lock-prefix option to x86 assembler. -16. Fix nm on mixed IR/non-IR input objects. -17. Fix a --just-symbols linker bug. PR ld/17313. -18. Fix a bad .eh-frame section bug with LTO and non-LTO objects. PR -ld/16563. -19. Improve linker EH frame support -20. Fix a linker .gnu.warning bug with LTO objects. PR ld/16746. -21. Improve support for slim LTO objects. PR ld/13227. -22. Fix a linker crash when MALLOC_PERTURB_ is set. PR ld/17047. -23. Fix a wrapped symbol linker bug. PR ld/16910. -24. Fix a linker bug on object with separate debug file. PR ld/16867. -25. Fix an incorrect error message linker bug. PR ld/16787. -26. Fix an incorrect warning message linker bug. PR ld/16756. -27. Fix a linker bug on LTO objects with TLS. PR ld/16846. -28. Fix the 32-bit linker on large file (~2 Gb). PR ld/16803. -29. Fix a garbage collection linker bug. PR ld/16643. -30. Fix a garbage collection linker bug with --dynamic-list. PR -gold/16530. -31. Properly handle DW_CFA_restore_state in DWARF dumper. PR -binutils/16252. -32. Fix a strip bug. PR binutils/16811. -33. Update ar/nm to load liblto_plugin.so automatically if available. PR -binutils/14698. -34. Check corrupt section names in readelf. PR binutils/16664.a -35. Add NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION support to readelf. PR binutils/16444. -36. Update assembler to honour #line directives inside macros. PR -gas/16908. -37. Improve linker supprot for --as-needed and --start-group/--end-group. -PR ld/17068. -38. Honor "-z noexecstack" for "ld -r". PR ld/16744. -39. Honor --no-demangle for "ld --cref". PR ld/16569. -40. Improve gold. -41. Improve Windows support. -42. Improve MacOS support. -43. Improve aarch64 support. -44. Improve alpha support. -45. Improve arm support. -46. Improve avr support. -47. Improve cris support. -48. Improve m68k support. -49. Improve metag support. -50. Improve mips support. -51. Improve mmix support. -52. Improve msp430 support. -53. Improve nds32 support. -54. Improve nios2 support. -55. Improve or1k support. -56. Improve ppc/ppc64 support. -57. Improve rl78 support. -58. Improve rx support. -59. Improve s390 support. -60. Improve sh support. -61. Improve sparc support. -62. Improve v850 support. -63. Improve xtensa support. - -Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2014 0127. -2. Fix a linker crash with mixed IR/non-IR input objects. -3. Update readelf/objdump to display versioned symbol names when dumping -dynamic relocations. PR 16496. -4. Update linker to improve orphaned TLS section handling. PR 16498. -5. Update linker to check incompatible existing default symbol definition. -PR 16467. -6. Update linker to properly handle non-PIC references to __ehdr_start in -pie and shared object. PR 16428. -7. Update bfd to properly generate PT_GNU_RELRO segment for ld and -objcopy. PRs 14207/16322/16323. -8. Update x86 assembler to check for invalid register set in AVX512 gather -instructions. PR 16489. -9. Update empty section handling in linker. -10. Avoid invalid directory in linker library search. PR 16456. -11. Improve x86 disassembler. -12. Improve gold. -13. Improve COFF support. -14. Add nds32 support. -15. Improve aarch64 support. -16. Improve arm support. -17. Improve mips support. -18. Improve msp430 support. -19. Improve ppc support. -20. Improve rl78 support. -21. Improve z80 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2013 1213. -2. Fix ld and objcopy to set the SHF_INFO_LINK bit for SHT_REL/SHT_RELA -sections. PR 16317. -3. Fix ld and objcopy to properly generate PT_GNU_RELRO segment. PRs -14207/16322/16323. -4. Fix objcopy to copy EI_OSABI field. PR 16318. -5. Change ld to set e_type in ELF header to ET_EXEC for -pie --Ttext-segment=. -6. Fix a ld bug for --as-needed with symbol versioning. -7. Add gas/ld/gold support for R_X86_64_PC32_BND and R_X86_64_PLT32_BND -relocations. -8. Fix an assembler line listing bug. PR 16109. -9. Improve gold. -10. Improve nacl support. -11. Improve COFF support. -12. Improve aarch64 support. -13. Improve arm support. -14. Improve hppa support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve ppc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.52.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2013 1106. -2. Add Intel AVX-512 new instruction support. -3. Add Intel MPX new instruction support. -4. Update ld to support x86-64 large PIC model with TLS GD and LD sequences. -5. Fix ld to properly handle R_X86_64_DTPOFF64. PR 15685. -6. Fix x86 assembler to properly check 64-bit register. -7. Update x86 assembler not to align text/data/bss sections for ELF. -8. Fix x86 assembler to properly support cvttps2pi. PR 13572. -9. Fix ld to generate warning sections in glibc. PR 15762. -10. Avoid corrupted binary generated by objcopy/strip. PR 16056. -11. Improve ld hash. PR 15657. -12. Fix objdump on /proc/kcore. PR 15818. -13. Improve DWARF support. -14. Improve addr2line. PR 15994. -15. Improve readelf. PR 15745. -16. Improve gold. -17. Improve nacl support. -18. Improve aarch64 support. -19. Improve arm support. -20. Improve cris support. -21. Improve hppa support. -22. Improve m32c support. -23. Improve m68k support. -24. Improve mips support. -25. Improve msp430 support. -26. Improve nios2 support. -27. Improve ppc support. -28. Improve rl78 support. -29. Improve rx support. -30. Improve rs6000 support. -31. Improve s390 support. -32. Improve sparc support. -33. Improve tile support. -34. Improve vax support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.52.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2013 0426. -2. Add x32 support to embedded x86_64 ELF target. -3. Fix an x86 IFUNC linker regression. PR 15371. -4. Fix an LTO linker weak definition bug. PR 15323. -5. Remove stale dynamic table entries for symbols optimized out by LTO. -PR 15270. -6. Revert the fix for PR 15149. When creating executables, BFD linker -won't issue an error for undefined weak reference which is defined in -7 shared library from DT_NEEDED. -8. Ignore weak reference which is is defined in a shared library from -DT_NEEDED. This may change the behavior of resulting binaries with -undefined weak reference. List libraries needed on command-line as work -around. PR 12549. -9. Fix a MIPS ELF linker crash. PR 15382. -10. Align LMA per VMA alignment only if needed. PR 15222. -11. Fix a BFD decompress memory leak. PR 15356. -12. Properly check SIB byte in x86 disassembler. -13, Fix invalid memory access in readelf. PR 15191. -14, Fix invalid memory access in DWARF dumper. PRs 15206/15202/15201. -15. Improve gold. -16. Improve aarch64 support. -17. Improve arm support. -18. Improve avr support. -19. Improve h8300 support. -20. Improve mips support. -21. Improve nios2 support. -22. Improve ppc support. -23. Improve rl78 support. -24. Improve sh support. -25. Improve sparc support. -26. Improve tic6x support. -27. Improve v850 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.9: - -1. Update from binutils 2013 0226. -2. Add Intel SAMP new instruction support. -3. Allow dynamic R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64 -relocations agaist TLS symbols. -4. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only for definition. PR 15167. -5. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only if symbol is defined in -regular object. PR 15107. -6. Don't add DT_NEEDED for references from the LTO IR input. PR 15146. -7. When creating executables, BFD linker will issue an error for undefined -weak reference which is defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED. -PR 15149. -8. Also trace symbol from the LTO IR input. PR 15141. -9. Support stripping LTO IR sections. PR 15033. -10. Don't allow a nested archive pointing to itself and don't generate -bad archive. PR 15140. -11. Fix objcopy segfault on non-ELF input. PR 14873. -12. Update DWARF dump support. -13. Improve gold. -14. Add nios2 support. -15. Improve mach support. -16. Improve aarch64 support. -17. Improve arm support. -18. Improve avr support. -19. Improve h8300 support. -20. Improve meta support. -21. Improve mips support. -22. Improve ppc support. -23. Improve rl78 support. -24. Improve sparc support. -25. Improve v850 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.8: - -1. Update from binutils 2013 0118. -2. Support R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64 -relocations. -3. Fix x86 assembler for "xtrn@got -1". PR 15019. -4. Don't generate old dtags with --enable-new-dtags. -5. Add Meta support. -6. Improve gold. -7. Improve aarch64 support. -8. Improve arm support. -9. Improve cr16 support. -10. Improve mips support. -11. Improve ppc support. -12. Improve v850 support. -13. Improve xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.7: - -1. Properly adjust h->plt.refcount. PR 14980. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1218. -2. Add missing R_*_IRELATIVE relocations. PR 14968. -3. Remove unnecessary R_*_NONE relocations. PR 14956. -4. Fix ar/ranlib on 32-bit filesystems. PR 14933. -5. Fix a "Not enough room for program headers" linker bug. PR 14926. -6. Support self-assignment in a linker script to convert symbols to -absolute. PR 14962. -7. Support --copy-dt-needed-entries when creating DSO. PR 14915. -8. Improve linker plugin DSO error handling. PR 14904. -9. Issue warning for plugin dummy. PR 12760. -10. Add -fuse-ld=bfd|gold support to ld and gold. -11. Fix gold configure. PR 14897. -12. Correct gas dependency. PR 14899. -13. Add rdos support. -14. Improve gold. -15. Improve nacl support. -16. Improve aarch64 support. -17. Improve arm support. -18. Improve microblaze support. -19. Improve mips support. -20. Improve ppc support. -21. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1123. -2. Fix 64-bit jecxz encoding regression in x86 assembler. PR 14859. -3. Revert an accidental linker change. PR 14862. -4. Fix x32 TLS LD to LE optimization in gold. PR 14858. -5. Add "-z global" option to set DF_1_GLOBAL to ld. -6. Improve ld plugin error handling. -7. Port ld lib32 arrangement from Debian. -8. Properly set the output maxpagesize when rewriting program header. -PR 14493. -9. Add additional DF_1_XXX support to readelf. -10. Improve nacl support with separate code segments. -11. Improve macos support. -12. Improve arm support. -13. Improve microblaze support. -14. Improve mips support. -15. Improve ppc support. -16. Improve sparc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1110. -2. Support new Linux NOTE sections. -3. Add -z stacksize=SIZE option to ld to set size of stack segment. -4. Fix a BFD IOVEC close bug. PR 14813. -5. Fix a BFD IOVEC on archive bug. PR 14567. -6. Fix archive support for non-ELF targets. PR 14481. -7. Improve gold. -8. Improve COFF support. -9. Improve arm support. -10. Improve microblaze support. -11. Improve mips support. -12. Improve ppc support. -13. Improve rx support. -14. Improve s390 support. -15. Improve v850 support. -16. Improve xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 1026. -2. Fix an LTO linker bug. PR 14747. -3. Add cx16 arch feature to x86 assembler. -4. Add -march=bdver3 option to x86 assembler. -5. Properly handle ignored REX prefix with fwait in x86 disassembler. -6. Fix x32 register names in objdump DWARF output. -7. Add NT_SIGINFO/NT_FILE support to readelf. -8. Add linker --ignore-unresolved-symbol option from NetBSD. -9. Treat .gdb_index section as debug section. PR 14662. -10. Add --debug-dump=addr, --debug_dump=cu_index options to readelf and -objdump. -11. Add dwp, DWARF packaging utility. -12. Add compressed debug section support to Windows. PR 14067. -13. Improve gold. -14. Improve aarch64 support. -15. Improve arm support. -16. Improve hppa support. -17. Improve mips support. -18. Improve s390 support. -19. Improve tile support. -20. Improve v850 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0918. -2. Properly handle versioned STB_SECONDARY symbols. -3. Fix wrong symbol type with common symbol and weak function. PR 14591. -4. Ignore discarded sections when converting mov to lea. -5. Improve gold. -6. Improve avr support. -7. Improve aarch64 support. -8. Improve moxie support. -9. Improve ppc support. -10. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0908. -2. Fix STB_SECONDARY support: - a. Generate STB_SECONDARY symbols in DSO by default. - b. Properly handle STB_SECONDAY symbols when linking with archive. - c. Don't allow .weak directive to override .secondary directive. -3. Optimize i386/x86-64 linker to convert GOT load (MOV) to LEA. -4. Clarify x86 assembler error messages. PR 14457. -5. Improve NOP/prefetch support in x86 disassembler. -6. Improve Intel syntax support in x86 assembler. -7. Add -march={btver1, btver2} options to x86 assembler. -8. Fix binutils build with --enable-shared. PR 4970. -9. Also provide __executable_start for PIE. PR 14525. -10. Use xmalloc to allocate memory for argument list file. PR 14526. -11. Add Intel Itanium Series 9500 support to assembler/diassembler. -12. Ignore section symbols without a BFD section when outputing symbols -and check bad section index. PR 14493. -13. Improve archive reader. PR 14475. -14. Support DW_OP_GNU_const_index reader. -15. Improve handling of imput files with empty ELF group sections. -PR 14444. -16. Fix IFUNC support in s390 linker. -17. Improve gold. -18. Add aarch64 support. -19. Improve arm support. -20. Improve mips support. -21. Improve mmix support. -22. Improve moxie support. -23. Improve ppc support. -24. Improve s390 support. -25. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0806. -2. Add Intel ADX, RDSEED and PRFCHW new instruction support. -3. Support 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax in x86 assembler. -4. Mark 256-bit vmovntdqa as AVX2 instruction for x86 assembler. -5. Improve x86 assembler error handling. -6. Improve the repeat directive support in assembler. PR 14201. -7. Improve x86-64 disassembler on superfluous prefixes. -8. Fix x86 disassembler crash on bad XOP instructions. PR 14355. -9. Support STB_SECONDARY: - -https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/generic-abi - -10. Added SORT_NONE to the linker script language to disable section -sorting and properly handle .init/.fini sections. PR 14156. -11. Fix a weak alias linker bug. PR 14323. -12. Fix the NULL GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14207. -13. Fix the bad GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14215. -14. Add linker support of __ehdr_start symbol for the ELF file header. -15. Add IFUNC support to s390 linker. -16. Fix ar for >4GB member. PR 14302. -17. Fix objcopy --compress-debug-sections on empty debug section. PR -14319. -18. Fix readelf/objdup to display null bytes in DWARF debug info. PR -14420. -19. Improve gold. -20. Improve arm support. -21. Improve avr support. -22. Improve cris support. -23. Improve m68k support. -24. Improve mips support. -25. Improve ppc support. -26. Improve vax support. -27. Improve xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0604. -2. Check addend overflow for R_X86_64_RELATIVE64. -3. Fix ar/nm/ranlib with --plugin. -4. Create .eh_frame_hdr section only if needed. PR 13909. -5. Properly create .eh_frame section for PLT. PR 14105. -6. Fix a linker crash. PR 14170. -7. Fix readelf to properly display addend. -8. Don't make _DYNAMIC/_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_/_PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ -symbols absolute for x86 and ppc. -9. Properly handle shared libraries with zero dynamic symbols. PRs -7023/13962. -10. Update readelf/assembler to support multibyte characters in symbol -names. -11. Add --strip-dwo/--extract-dwo options to objcopy/strip. -12. Add R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 support to gold. -13. Improve gold. -14. Improve NACL support. -15. Improve alpha support. -16. Improve avr support. -17. Improve m68k support. -18. Improve mips support. -19. Improve ppc support. -20. Improve vax support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0507. -2. Fix Linux kernel build by reverting the PR 13621 fix. PR 14052. -3. Add support for x86_64-*-linux-gnux32 target. -4. Improve x86 assembler. -5. Improve DWARF support. -6. Improve gold. -7. Improve rx support. -8. Improve sparc support. -9. Add xgate support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0424. -2. Support Intel HLE and RTM extension. -3. Add NACL support. -4. Fix -Bsymbolic with protected function pointer. PR 13880. -5. Fix an IFUNC regression. PR 13817. -6. Fix x86 NOP fill regression. PR 13675. -7. Fix a linker regression. PR 13991. -8. Fix dangling global hidden symbol in symtab. PR 13621. -9. Fix objcopy, strip and ld for --emit-relocs. PR 13947. -10. Improve gold. -11. Improve mach support. -12. Improve vms support. -13. Improve windows support. -14. Improve arm support. -15. Improve avr support. -16. Improve mips support. -17. Improve ppc support. -18. Improve rx support. -19. Improve s390 support. -20. Improve sh support. -21. Improve sparc support. -22. Improve tile support. - -Changes from binutils 2.22.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2012 0131. -2. Add x32 support to gold. -3. Support linker arch-depedent fill. PR 13616. -4. Add i386 NACL support to x86 assembler. -5. Add fake zero displacement for .d8 and .d32 suffixes to x86 assembler. -6. Add vmfunc support to x86 assembler/disassembler. -7. Support >2GB archive member. PR 13534. -8. Support R_X86_64_PC32 relocation for PIC on x32. PR 13581. -9. Fix LTO linker with --start-group and archive. PR 12758. -10. Fix linker with --build-id. PR 12451. -11. Improve linker dead code dependency removal on DSO. PR 12772. -12. Improve demangler. -13. Fix elf64-x86-64.c build with GCC 4.7. -14. Avoid linker -z text crash. PR 13468. -15. Avoid readelf crash. PR 13622. -16. Avoid nm crash on --size-sort --no-sort. PR 13593. -17. Fix linker COFF SECREL32 relocation support. PR 13491. -18. Improve gold. -19. Improve mach support. -20. Improve arm support. -21. Improve avr support. -22. Improve hppa support. -23. Improve m68k support. -24. Improve mips support. -25. Improve ppc support. -26. Improve rl78 support. -27. Improve rx support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 1118. -2. Fix ar --plugin on archive with mixed IR/non-IR objects. PR 13298. -3. Preserve the maximum alignment and size for common symbols. PR 13250. -4. Fix LTO linker with -as-needed. PR 13287. -5. Fix --plugin support on thin archive. PR 13257. -6. Fix LTO linker on thin archive. PR 13183. -7. Fix --plugin slim object support on archive. PR 13278. -8. Support LDPR_PREVAILING_DEF_IRONLY_EXP in linker plugin. PR 13229. -9. Don't make make IR symbols dynamic. PR 13244. -10. Fix LTO linker with --as-needed. PR 13201. -11. Properly handle 2 IR symbols with the same comdat key. PR 13066. -12. Keep .debug_types sections with linker garbage collection. PR 13233. -13. Fix -ffunction-sections -Wl,--gc-sections failure with symbol -versioning. PR 13195. -14. Improve linker garbage collection support. PR 13177. -15. Remove symbols hidden by version scripts with --gc-sections. PR 12975. -16. Remove unnecessary GOT relocation created for IFUNC. PR 13178. -17. Move IRELATIVE relocations to the end. PR 13302. -18. Avoid readelf core dump. PR 13219. -19. Check zero address size when dumping DWARF sections. PR 13196. -20. Remove the group section if all members are removed. PR 13180. -21. Support R_X86_64_64 and R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 relocations for x32. -PR 13082. -22. Add Adapteva Epiphany support. -23. Add Renesas RL78 support. -24. Improve gold. -25. Improve mach-o support. -26. Improve alpha support. -27. Improve arm support. -28. Improve hppa support. -29. Improve mips support. -30. Improve ppc support. -31. Improve rx support. -32. Improve sparc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0804. -2. Add Intel K1OM support. -3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocation for x32 and check x32 relocation overflow. -PR ld/13048. -4. Support direct call in x86-64 assembly code. PR gas/13046. -5. Add ia32 Google Native Client support. -6. Add .debug_macro section support. -7. Improve gold. -8. Improve VMS support. -9. Improve arm support. -10. Improve hppa support. -11. Improve mips support. -12. Improve mmix support. -13. Improve ppc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0716. -2. Fix LTO linker bugs. PRs 12982/12942. -3. Fix rorx support in x86 assembler/disassembler for AVX Programming -Reference (June, 2011). -4. Fix an x86-64 ELFOSABI linker regression. -5. Update ELFOSABI_GNU support. PR 12913. -6. Fix a linker regression with prelink support. PR 12921. -7. Add unwind info to x86 PLT section. PR 12570. -8. Support x32 core files. -9. Support native x32 linker. -10. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851. -11. Avoid linker crash on bad input. PR 12887. -12. Add section flags in linker script. -13. Improve elf linker -z option support. -14. Fix nm on compressed debug sections. PR 12983. -15. Fix an ar bug. PR 12558. -16. Fix an ia64 linker regression. PR 12978. -17. Improve gold. -18. Improve VMS support. -19. Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support. -20. Improve alpha support. -21. Improve avr support. -22. Improve mips support. -23. Improve arm support. -24. Improve ppc support. -25. Improve sh support. -26. Improve TIC6X support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0610. -2. Support AVX Programming Reference (June, 2011) -3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocations in SEC_DEBUGGING sections when building -x32 shared libraries. Used to build kernel x32 vDSO. -4. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851. -5. Update readelf to handle binaries containing corrupt version -information. PR 12855. -6. Improve gold. -7. Improve VMS support. -8. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.9: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0608. -2. Fix an x86 linker regression. PRs 12833/12837/12859. -3. Fix an x86-64 large model TLS linker bug. PR 12809. -4. Fix LTO bugs. PRs 12758/12760. -5. Add a new linker switch, -plugin-save-temps. -6. Fix an linker bug for warning on common symbol in archive. -7. Fix warning support when building shared library. PR 12761. -8. Reduce linker memory usage when linking many small object files. -PR 12682. -9. Fix a thin archive bug. PR 12710. -10. Fix a TLS linker bug. PR 12763. -11. Improve gold. -12. Improve DWARF dump support. -13. Improve XCOFF support. -14. Improve arm support. -15. Improve cris support. -16. Improve ia64 ILP32 support. -17. Improve mips support. -18. Improve ppc support. -19. Improve rx support. -20. Improve s390 support. -21. Improve tic30 support. -22. Improve tic6x support. -23. Improve v850 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.8: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0507. -2. Improve LTO bfd linker. PRs 12365/12696/12672 -3. Fix a linker regression with constructor attribute in C++. PR 12730. -4. Warn relocation in readonly section when creating a shared object. -5. Remove empty output sections. PR 12718. -6. Remove DT_TEXTREL with local IFUNC symbols. PR 12694. -7. Properly set ELFOSABI_LINUX for STB_GNU_UNIQUE. PR 10549. -8. Fix objcopy on unusual input. PR 12632. -9. Fix an ar regression. PR 12720. -10 Avoid linker crash on bad linker input. -11. Fix a linker script regression. PR 12726. -12. Support new GNU DWARF extensions. -13. Initial support for SystemTap note sections. -14. Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump. -15. Disable 3dnow and 3dnowa for bdver1 in x86 assembler. -16. Improve gold. -17. Improve VMS support. -18. Improve arm support. -19. Improve mips support. -20. Improve ppc support. -21. Improve s390 support. -22. Improve tic6x support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.7: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0408. -2. Fix x32 TLS linker bug. -3. Enable .quad directive in x32 assembler. -4. Fix an assembler regression. PRs 12569/12589. -5. Add --size-check= assembler option to issue a warning, instead of an -error, on bad ELF .size directive. -6. Fix an ia32 linker bug with TLS/PIE. PR 12654. -7. Fix Intel L1OM linker library search path. -8. Fix a linker buffer overflow on malformed inputs. PR 12613. -9. Check corrupted symtab in nm/readelf. PR 12639. -10. Avoid objcopy crash on archive with unknown objects. PR 12632. -11. Fix "ar -t". PR 12590. -12. Fix many memory leaks. -13. Improve DWARF support. -14. Improve gold. -15. Improve VMS support. -16. Improve Windows support. -17. Improve alpha support. -18. Improve arm support. -19. Improve avr support. -20. Improve ppc support. -21. Improve sparc support. -22. Improve tic6x support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0306. -2. Supprt x32 TLS IE->LE transition. -3. Change x32 library directory from /lib32 to /libx32. -4. Improve LTO linker support. Fix PRs 12439/12314/12248/12430. -5. Improve linker plugin support. -6. Fix an ar bug. PR 12513. -7. Properly generate nops for ia32. PR 6957. -8. Improve readelf DT_GNU_HASH support. PR 12523. -9. Improve readelf on invalid input. PR 12467. -10. Update ELF assembler to issue an error on invalid .size directive. -PR 12519, -11. Properly handle PT_DYNAMIC segment with zero size sections. PR 12516. -12. Add a new linker option, --verbose=2, to report plugin symbol -status. -13. Properly handle entry symbols in linker LTO support. PR 12507. -14. Improve gold. -15. Improve arm support. -16. Improve bfin support. -17. Improve mips support. -18. Improve ppc support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0118. -2. Fix x32 (ILP32) support. Renamed assembler option to --x32. It -can create working static and dynamic x32 executables. -3. Add BMI and TBM new instruction support. -4. Fix x86 disassembler to properly display sign-extended byte. -5. Improve IFUNC linker support. PRs 12366/12371. -6. Fix readelf bug on archive. PR 12408. -7. Fix a assembler when compressing empty debug sections. PR 12409. -8. Fix a warning symbol linker bug. PR 12339. -9. Fix a duplicated assert message linker bug. PR 12380. -10. Fix plugin linker build. PR 12391. -11. Fix a plugin linker crash. PR 12364. -12. Improve plugin linker. -13. Improve gold. -14. Improve arm support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve rx support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2011 0104. -2. Add ILP32 support: - -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ilp32/abi.pdf - -to Linux/x86-64. -3. Prevent the Linux x86-64 kernel build failure and remove -__ld_compatibility support. PR 12356. -4. Improve gold. -5. Improve Windows support. -6. Improve hppa support. -7. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1217. -2. Fix the Linux relocatable kernel build. PR 12327. -3. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1215. -2. Add BFD linker support for placing input .ctors/.dtors sections in -output .init_array/.fini_array section. Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY. The -benefits are - a. Avoid output .ctors/.dtors section in executables and shared - libraries. - b. Allow mixing input .ctors/.dtors sections with input - .init_array/.fini_array sectiobs. GCC PR 46770. -3. Add BFD linker support for "ld -r" on mixed IR/non-IR objects. Add -the new ELF section type SHT_GNU_OBJECT_ONLY (0x6ffffff8). See - -http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12291 - -4. Update BFD linker to accept -flto and -flto-partition= for GCC LTO -option compatibility. -5. Fix BFD linker to avoid touching uncompressed section content when -relocating DWARF debug sections for errror reporting. -6. Mark .gnu.lto_* sections with SHF_EXCLUDE. -7. Add --target option to ar. -8. Improve gold. -9. Improve AIX support. -10. Improve Windows support. -11. Improve mips support. - -Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1206. -2. Fix BFD and GOLD linker for compressed debug section support. -3. Fix BFD linker plugin support. PR ld/12246, ld/12247, ld/12248, -ld/12277, ld/12288 and ld/12289. -4. Update BFD linker to group .text.exit, text.startup and .text.hot -sections. -5. Fix linker for W_EH_PE_datarel handling. PR ld/12253. -6. Fix array access bug in readelf/elfedit. PR binutils/11742 and -binutils/12235. -7. Support dumping GDB .gdb_index section. -8. Install plugin-api.h. -9. Improve gold. -10. Improve Solaris support. -11. Improve VMS support. -12. Improve Windows support. -13. Improve arm support. -14. Improve bfin support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve s390 support. -17. Improve z80 support. - -Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.12: - -1. Update from binutils 2010 1110. -2. Fix ld plugin support. PRs lto/46291 and lto/46319. -3. Fix x86 assembler to properly fold _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ in Intel -syntax. PR 12186. -4. Update assembler to ensure that group signature symbols have the name -of the group. -5. Avoid unnecessary relaxation in assembler. PR 12049. -6. Update linker NOLOAD processing. -7. Update linker not to include archive members when symbols therein have -already been defined. PR 12001. -8. Change objdump to display compressed section names without 'z'. -9. Improve gold. -10. Improve Solaris support. -11. Improve VMS support. -12. Improve Windows support. -13. Improve arm support. -14. Improve cr16 support. -15. Improve mips support. -16. Improve ppc support. -17. Improve tic6x support. - -It is available as users/hjl/linux/release/2.26.51.0.2 tag at - -https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=summary - -Thanks. - - -H.J. Lu -hjl.tools@gmail.com -07/25/2016