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| author | Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> | 2021-02-17 17:02:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> | 2021-02-20 16:37:08 +0000 |
| commit | 03c653093d7a8e096216789596186e8ce94b3faa (patch) | |
| tree | 6ba620dd4898cbb7ccdb7876de0dbcd2f6aabe3e /libctf/NEWS | |
| parent | f4f60336daee74c094474e4da7b88c4a8b75a49e (diff) | |
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libctf: add a NEWS
I'm dividing this into three groups for now: new features, bugfixes,
and bugfixes also present on a stable branch.
Only user-visible bugfixes, not build-system fixes, are listed.
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diff --git a/libctf/NEWS b/libctf/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c0aef3b --- /dev/null +++ b/libctf/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +-*- text -*- + +Changes in 2.37: + +* New features + +** Add ctf_lookup_by_symbol name and ctf_arc_lookup_symbol_name, analogues of + existing ctf_lookup_by_symbol and ctf_arc_lookup_symbol, but looking up + symbols by name rather than symbol number. This also works in places where no + symbol number is known, like in object files and dynamic dicts created by + ctf_create. + +* Bugfixes + +** Avoid duplicating or losing types of data object symbols when + ld -r is used + +** Prohibit typedefs with no name; prevent the linker/deduplicator + producing such typedefs + +* Bugfixes, also on 2.36 branch + +** Prevent ctf_lookup_by_name returning success when + looking up nonexistent pointer types + +** Fix ctf_type_add copying of structs with unnamed members |