projects / binutils.git / blame
| Commit | Line | Data |
|---|---|---|
| 632dcce8 KR |
1 | -*- text -*- |
| 2 | ||
| 3 | Changes since version 2.3: | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | * New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor. For a.out and ecoff | |
| 6 | formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time | |
| 7 | and memory used while linking; slightly poorer performance than | |
| 8 | before for formats not converted yet. | |
| 9 | ||
| 632dcce8 KR |
10 | * Command-line parsing is no longer done with flex. This means |
| 11 | oddball characters in filenames won't get treated as argument | |
| 12 | separators. | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | * HP-PA ELF support, by Jeff Law. (No SOM support yet.) | |
| 15 | ||
| 632dcce8 KR |
16 | * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie. |
| 17 | ||
| 18 | Changes since version 2.2: | |
| 19 | ||
| 20 | * Weak symbols are now supported. | |
| 21 | ||
| 22 | * ELF support has been added. The linker has been bootstrapped on | |
| 23 | UnixWare and Solaris. | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | * Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only). | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | Changes since version 2.1: | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | * The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string | |
| 30 | table size. The effect of this is that files linked from many input | |
| 31 | files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical | |
| 32 | static symbols) should be much smaller. | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | Changes since version 2.0: | |
| bc3b479c PB |
35 | |
| 36 | * The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented. | |
| 37 | ||
| 38 | * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the | |
| 39 | other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. | |
| 632dcce8 KR |
40 | |
| 41 | \f | |
| 42 | Local variables: | |
| 43 | fill-column: 79 | |
| 44 | End: |