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1 | -*- text -*- |
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| 3 | Changes since binutils 2.6 | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | * Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure. | |
| 6 | ||
| 7 | * Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy. | |
| 8 | ||
| 9 | * Added --defined-only argument to nm. | |
| 10 | ||
| 11 | * Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
| 12 | ||
| 13 | * The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc. | |
| 14 | ||
| 15 | Changes since binutils 2.5 | |
| 16 | ||
| 17 | * Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy. | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | * Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new | |
| 20 | file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit | |
| 21 | generating plain binary files. | |
| 22 | ||
| 23 | * Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump. | |
| 24 | ||
| 25 | * ar and ranlib now work on AIX. The tools are now built by default on AIX. | |
| 26 | ||
| 27 | Changes since binutils 2.4 | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly | |
| 30 | listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files. | |
| 31 | ||
| 32 | * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections. | |
| 33 | Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections. | |
| 34 | ||
| 35 | * Added --size-sort option to nm. | |
| 36 | ||
| 37 | * strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF | |
| 38 | executables. | |
| 39 | ||
| 40 | Changes since binutils 2.3 | |
| 41 | ||
| 42 | * Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and | |
| 43 | PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor). | |
| 44 | ||
| 45 | * Support for Irix 5. | |
| 46 | ||
| 47 | * Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked | |
| 48 | ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly. | |
| 49 | ||
| 50 | Changes since binutils 2.2 | |
| 51 | ||
| 52 | * A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in | |
| 53 | ELF and COFF files. | |
| 54 | ||
| 55 | * A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into | |
| 56 | Novell NetWare Loadable Modules. | |
| 57 | ||
| 58 | * The strings program has been added. | |
| 59 | ||
| 60 | Changes since binutils 2.1 | |
| 61 | ||
| 62 | * The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with | |
| 63 | 'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for | |
| 64 | 'cp'. | |
| 65 | ||
| 66 | * The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded | |
| 67 | (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names. (Note: This | |
| 68 | may get moved to the gcc distribution.) | |
| 69 | ||
| 70 | * nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching | |
| 71 | the output from BSD nm. | |
| 72 | ||
| 73 | * ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives. | |
| 74 | ||
| 75 | * New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH. | |
| 76 | ||
| 77 | * Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb. | |
| 78 | ||
| 79 | * There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use. | |
| 80 | ||
| 81 | * There is the beginnings of a test suite. | |
| 82 | ||
| 83 | Changes since binutils 2.0 | |
| 84 | ||
| 85 | * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities | |
| 86 | should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. Please let us know how well this works. | |
| 87 | ||
| 88 | * ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD | |
| 89 | version), if there are any object files in the archive. So running ranlib is | |
| 90 | now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used). This is required | |
| 91 | for Posix.2 conformance. | |
| 92 | ||
| 93 | * The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives | |
| 94 | independently of the selected target format. This is to encourage people to | |
| 95 | switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages. | |
| 96 | ||
| 97 | * The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only | |
| 98 | and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options. | |
| 99 | ||
| 100 | \f | |
| 101 | Local variables: | |
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