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authorIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1996-12-31 19:12:03 +0000
committerIan Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>1996-12-31 19:12:03 +0000
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-*- text -*-
-Changes since version 2.7:
+Changes in version 2.8:
* Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section
names.
@@ -9,7 +9,14 @@ Changes since version 2.7:
* The LOADADDR expression was added to the linker script language.
-Changes since version 2.6:
+* MAX and MIN functions were added to the linker script language.
+
+* The OVERLAY construct was added to the linker script language.
+
+* New option --warn-section-align to warn when the address of an output section
+ changes due to alignment of an input section.
+
+Changes in version 2.7:
* New option --cref to print out a cross reference table.
@@ -24,7 +31,7 @@ Changes since version 2.6:
the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types. This reduces the amount of debugging
information generated.
-Changes since version 2.5:
+Changes in version 2.6:
* When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true
of most ELF section names), the linker will automatically define symbols
@@ -57,7 +64,7 @@ enums, so that even if the same type is defined in multiple input files it will
only be defined once in the output file. The --traditional-format switch will
prevent this optimization.
-Changes since version 2.4:
+Changes in version 2.5:
* The linker now supports linking against SunOS shared libraries. It still can
not link SunOS PIC (Position Independent Code) files, so it can not be used to
@@ -96,7 +103,7 @@ far, this function has been written for the i386, m68k, a29k and SH targets.
* The -V flag was made a synonym for -v, for SVR4 compatibility. The old -V
behaviour is available via --verbose.
-Changes since version 2.3:
+Changes in version 2.4:
* 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
@@ -120,7 +127,7 @@ Changes since version 2.3:
forgot to note it.) Some of their C library routines don't work when
statically linked, and the GNU linker doesn't support dynamic linking yet.
-Changes since version 2.2:
+Changes in version 2.3:
* Weak symbols are now supported.
@@ -129,14 +136,14 @@ Changes since version 2.2:
* Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
-Changes since version 2.1:
+Changes in version 2.2:
* 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:
+Changes in version 2.1:
* The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.