From: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2025 07:49:08 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: {binutils, gas, ld}/NEWS: Announce LoongArch changes in 2.45
X-Git-Tag: binutils-2_45~63
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{binutils, gas, ld}/NEWS: Announce LoongArch changes in 2.45

Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
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diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 06356875255..6ef8e67c3e1 100644
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -24,6 +24,10 @@
 * For RISC-V dis-assembler, the definition of mapping symbol $x is changed,
   so the file needs to be rebuilt since 2.45 once used .option arch directives.
 
+* The LoongArch disassembler now properly accepts multiple disassembly
+  options given by -M, such as "-M no-aliases,numeric".  (Previously only the
+  first option took effect.)
+
 Changes in 2.44:
 
 * Support for Nios II targets has been removed except in the readelf utility,
diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
index 05352a732cc..56a2b88d1ea 100644
--- a/gas/NEWS
+++ b/gas/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,15 @@
 
 * Add support for the x86 Zhaoxin PadLock XMODX instructions.
 
+* Add support for several instruction aliases defined for the LoongArch 32-bit
+  reduced subset (LA32R): rdcntvl.w, rdcntvh.w, rdcntid.w.
+
+* For LoongArch, warn about out-of-range 3rd arguments (maximum number of
+  bytes to skip) of .align directives.
+
+* For LoongArch, warn about negative right-shift amounts and
+  division/modulus-by-zero when evaluating expressions.
+
 Changes in 2.44:
 
 * Add support for the x86 Intel Diamond Rapids AMX instructions, including
diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS
index 85c74a96441..2ad06e9c124 100644
--- a/ld/NEWS
+++ b/ld/NEWS
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@
 
 * On s390, add support for linker option --[no-]ld-generated-unwind-info.
 
+* On LoongArch, linker relaxation time complexity is no longer quadratic with
+  respect to relocation counts.  Linking time of large software should be
+  improved.
+
+* On LoongArch, R_LARCH_32_PCREL records are now checked for overflow.
+
 Changes in 2.44:
 
 * Support for Nios II target has been removed, as this architecture has been