3 Changes since version 2.3:
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.
10 * Command-line parsing is no longer done with flex. This means
11 oddball characters in filenames won't get treated as argument
14 * HP-PA ELF support, by Jeff Law. (No SOM support yet.)
16 * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie.
18 Changes since version 2.2:
20 * Weak symbols are now supported.
22 * ELF support has been added. The linker has been bootstrapped on
25 * Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
27 Changes since version 2.1:
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.
34 Changes since version 2.0:
36 * The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.
38 * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the
39 other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.