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| -rw-r--r-- | ld/NEWS | 34 |
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@@ -1,5 +1,26 @@ -*- text -*- +Changes since version 2.5: + +* 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 +__start_SECNAME and __stop_SECNAME, where SECNAME is the section name, at the +beginning and the end of the section. This is used by glibc. + +* When an ELF section named .gnu.warning is encountered in an input file, the +contents of the section are displayed as an error message, and the section is +not copied into the output file. This is used by glibc. + +* New options -split-by-reloc and -split-by-file. + +* The linker now supports linking PIC compiled code on SPARC SunOS. It still +can not create SunOS shared libraries. + +* The COFF linker now combines debugging information for structs, unions, and +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: * The linker now supports linking against SunOS shared libraries. It still can @@ -16,9 +37,9 @@ Solaris again. Linux a.out shared libraries. The linker produces Linux QMAGIC binaries. * The ELF backend has been converted to the new linker code. To use the new -ELF linker, each particular targets requires a relocation function. So far, -this function has been written for i386 (UnixWare), SPARC (Solaris) and MIPS -(Irix 5) targets. +ELF linker, each particular target requires a relocation function. So far, +this function has been written for i386 (UnixWare), SPARC (Solaris) MIPS (Irix +5), and HPPA ELF targets. * The -( (--start-group) and -) (--end-group) options have been added to support searching a group of archives as though they were a single archive. @@ -32,6 +53,13 @@ default linker script. * The -warn-once option was added. It causes the linker to only warn once per undefined symbol, rather than once per reference. +* The COFF backend has been converted to the new linker code. As with ELF, to +use the new linker, each particular target requires a relocation function. So +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: * New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor. For a.out and ecoff |