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@@ -1,5 +1,23 @@ -*- text -*- +* NaCl target support is removed. + +Changes in 2.45: + +* On s390 64-bit (s390x), generate SFrame stack trace information (.sframe) + for the linker generated .plt section. Enabled by default. Can be disabled + using linker option --no-ld-generated-unwind-info. + +* All SFrame sections generated by the linker have the header flag + SFRAME_F_FDE_FUNC_START_PCREL set to indicate the new encoding for + sfde_func_start_address field in the SFrame section. Relocatable SFrame + links are now fixed. + + ELF SFrame sections now have section type set to SHT_GNU_SFRAME. + +* On RISC-V, add new PLT formats, and GNU property merge rules for zicfiss and + zicfilp extensions. + * The linker's --stats option can take an optional argument which if used is interpreted as a filename into which resource usage information should be stored. As an alternative mechanism the LD_STATS environment variable can @@ -12,12 +30,23 @@ * Remove the linker -taso option for Alpha target, as Linux/Alpha kernel support for 32-bit pointers has been removed. +* On avr, the default linker scripts now assert that the .progmem sections + don't extend past 0xffff since they are accessed by means of LPM. + For data in program memory that may be located past 0xffff, a .progmemx + section should be used. + * On s390, generate ".eh_frame" unwind information for the linker generated .plt section. Enabled by default. Can be disabled using linker option --no-ld-generated-unwind-info. * 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 |