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author | Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus> | 1994-04-05 18:55:56 +0000 |
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committer | Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus> | 1994-04-05 18:55:56 +0000 |
commit | 632dcce87bf708e7261bf9912a358a3a5b06c335 (patch) | |
tree | 25d45a9c4c0465fa20beb2777dd50c5ef98dfced | |
parent | 03fcf1f8f1b126f84d8a3df4acd698ed9c6d4ea8 (diff) | |
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@@ -1,6 +1,48 @@ -Changes since version 2.0 +-*- text -*- + +Changes since version 2.3: + +* New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor. For a.out and ecoff + formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time + and memory used while linking; slightly poorer performance than + before for formats not converted yet. + +* Irix 5 support. + +* Command-line parsing is no longer done with flex. This means + oddball characters in filenames won't get treated as argument + separators. + +* HP-PA ELF support, by Jeff Law. (No SOM support yet.) + +* PowerPC and RS/6000 support, by Ian Taylor. + +* Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie. + +Changes since version 2.2: + +* Weak symbols are now supported. + +* ELF support has been added. The linker has been bootstrapped on + UnixWare and Solaris. + +* Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only). + +Changes since version 2.1: + +* The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string + table size. The effect of this is that files linked from many input + files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical + static symbols) should be much smaller. + +Changes since version 2.0: * The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented. * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. + + +Local variables: +fill-column: 79 +End: |