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+-*- text -*-
+
+Changes in binutils 2.10:
+
+* objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed with
+  intel syntax.
+
+* New program: readelf.  This displays the contents of ELF format files,
+  regardless of target machine.
+
+* objcopy now takes --change-section-lma, --change-section-vma, and
+  --change-section-address options.  The old --adjust-section-vma option is
+  equivalent to --change-section-address.  The other --adjust-* options are now
+  renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work.
+
+* dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command.
+
+* dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols,
+  --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.9:
+
+* Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32
+  files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT.
+
+* The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than
+  the VMA of the sections.
+
+* Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.8:
+
+* The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved.  Use
+  the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format.  There are also new
+  --disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler
+  output.
+
+* Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets.  For example,
+  objdump -b i386-pc-linux.  The triplets are not passed through config.sub,
+  so they must be in canonical form.
+
+* Added new addr2line program.  This uses the debugging information to convert
+  an address into a file name and line number within a program.
+
+* Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy.
+
+* Added --weaken argument to objcopy.
+
+* objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries.
+
+* Added --adjust-vma option to objdump.
+
+* Added -C/--demangle option to objdump.
+
+* Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.7:
+
+* Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure.
+
+* Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy.
+
+* Added --defined-only argument to nm.
+
+* Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy.
+
+* The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc.
+
+* Added --line-numbers option to nm.
+
+* Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump.
+
+* Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.6:
+
+* Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy.
+
+* Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new
+  file is laid out in memory.  Also added binary output format to BFD to permit
+  generating plain binary files.
+
+* Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump.
+
+* ar and ranlib now work on AIX.  The tools are now built by default on AIX.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.5:
+
+* Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly
+  listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files.
+
+* Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections.
+  Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections.
+
+* Added --size-sort option to nm.
+
+* strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF
+  executables.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.4:
+
+* Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and
+  PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor).
+
+* Support for Irix 5.
+
+* Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked
+  ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.3:
+
+* A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in
+  ELF and COFF files.
+
+* A new program, nlmconv, has been added.  It can convert object files into
+  Novell NetWare Loadable Modules.
+
+* The strings program has been added.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.2:
+
+* The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with
+  'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for
+  'cp'.
+
+* The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded
+  (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names.  (Note: This
+  may get moved to the gcc distribution.)
+
+* nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching
+  the output from BSD nm.
+
+* ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives.
+
+* New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH.
+
+* Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb.
+
+* There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use.
+
+* There is the beginnings of a test suite.
+
+Changes in binutils 2.1:
+
+* There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities
+  should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.  Please let us know how well this works.
+
+* ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD
+  version), if there are any object files in the archive.  So running ranlib is
+  now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used).  This is required
+  for Posix.2 conformance.
+
+* The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives
+  independently of the selected target format.  This is to encourage people to
+  switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages.
+
+* The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only
+  and/or local symbols only.  They now also support long options.
+
+
+Local variables:
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+End: