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Diffstat (limited to 'ld/NEWS')
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1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -1,5 +1,25 @@ -*- text -*- +Changes since version 2.7: + +* Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section + names. + +Changes since version 2.6: + +* New option --cref to print out a cross reference table. + +* New option --wrap SYMBOL. + +* New option --no-whole-archive, to turn off the effect of --whole-archive. + +* Input sections assigned to the output section /DISCARD/ in the linker script + are not included in the output file. + +* The SunOS and ELF linkers now merge stabs debugging information which uses + the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types. This reduces the amount of debugging + information generated. + Changes since version 2.5: * When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true @@ -20,11 +40,13 @@ glibc. * New options -split-by-reloc and -split-by-file. * The linker now supports linking PIC compiled code on SPARC SunOS. It can -also create SPARC SunOS shared libraries. The native SunOS linker will do this -when linking code which has an undefined symbol, but the GNU linker requires -the -shared option. For convenience when used with gcc -shared, the GNU linker -will also create a shared library when given the -assert pure-text option, -although this is not really what -assert pure-text should mean. +also create SPARC SunOS shared libraries, and, like the native SunOS linker, +will do so whenever there is an undefined symbol in the link and neither the -e +nor the -r option was used. + +* The -rpath option may be used on SunOS to set the list of directories to be +searched at run time. This overrides the default of building the list from the +-L options. * 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 |