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diff --git a/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.9 b/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.9 deleted file mode 100644 index ecae5c083..000000000 --- a/source/d/binutils/release.binutils-2.18.50.0.9 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1028 +0,0 @@ -This is the beta release of binutils 2.18.50.0.9 for Linux, which is -based on binutils 2008 0822 in CVS on sourceware.org plus various -changes. It is purely for Linux. - -All relevant patches in patches have been applied to the source tree. -You can take a look at patches/README to see what have been applied and -in what order they have been applied. - -Starting from the 2.18.50.0.4 release, the x86 assembler no longer -accepts - - fnstsw %eax - -fnstsw stores 16bit into %ax and the upper 16bit of %eax is unchanged. -Please use - - fnstsw %ax - -Starting from the 2.17.50.0.4 release, the default output section LMA -(load memory address) has changed for allocatable sections from being -equal to VMA (virtual memory address), to keeping the difference between -LMA and VMA the same as the previous output section in the same region. - -For - -.data.init_task : { *(.data.init_task) } - -LMA of .data.init_task section is equal to its VMA with the old linker. -With the new linker, it depends on the previous output section. You -can use - -.data.init_task : AT (ADDR(.data.init_task)) { *(.data.init_task) } - -to ensure that LMA of .data.init_task section is always equal to its -VMA. The linker script in the older 2.6 x86-64 kernel depends on the -old behavior. You can add AT (ADDR(section)) to force LMA of -.data.init_task section equal to its VMA. It will work with both old -and new linkers. The x86-64 kernel linker script in kernel 2.6.13 and -above is OK. - -The new x86_64 assembler no longer accepts - - monitor %eax,%ecx,%edx - -You should use - - monitor %rax,%ecx,%edx - -or - monitor - -which works with both old and new x86_64 assemblers. They should -generate the same opcode. - -The new i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving -between a segment register and a 32bit memory location, i.e., - - movl (%eax),%ds - movl %ds,(%eax) - -To generate instructions for moving between a segment register and a -16bit memory location without the 16bit operand size prefix, 0x66, - - mov (%eax),%ds - mov %ds,(%eax) - -should be used. It will work with both new and old assemblers. The -assembler starting from 2.16.90.0.1 will also support - - movw (%eax),%ds - movw %ds,(%eax) - -without the 0x66 prefix. Patches for 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels are -available at - -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.4-seg-4.patch -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/linux-2.6-seg-5.patch - -The ia64 assembler is now defaulted to tune for Itanium 2 processors. -To build a kernel for Itanium 1 processors, you will need to add - -ifeq ($(CONFIG_ITANIUM),y) - CFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1 - AFLAGS += -Wa,-mtune=itanium1 -endif - -to arch/ia64/Makefile in your kernel source tree. - -Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.18.50.0.9 to -hjl.tools@gmail.com - -and - -http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/ - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.8: - -1. Update from binutils 2008 0822. -2. Add Intel AES+AVX support. -3. Add syscall and sysret for Cpu64 in x86 assembler. -4. Fix i386/x86-64 TLS 2 support. -5. Disable gas generated debug info when compiler generates it. PR -gas/6656. -6. Fix an assembler .set bug. PR 6848. -7. Remove 2MB section gap from linker output. PR ld/6833. -8. Fix stab warnings caused linker errors. PR 6478. -9. Remove AVX registers from DWARF register map. -10. Fix linking Linux .o against FreeBSD .so. PR 4424. -11. Fix objcopy --extract-symbol. PR 6774. -12. Improve gold. -13. Improve mips GOT and non-PIC support. -14. Fix various arms bugs. -15. Fix various bfin bugs. -16. Fix various frv bugs. -17. Fix various h8300 bugs. -18. Fix various ppc bugs. -19. Fix various spu bugs. -20. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.7: - -1. Update from binutils 2008 0709. -2. Allow vmovd with 64bit operand in x86 assembler. -3. Improve -msse-check in x86 assembler. -4. Fix an AVX assembler bug in Intel syntax. PR 6517. -5. Improve error message in Intel syntax for x86 assembler. PR 6518. -6. Add the ".sse_check" directive to x86 assembler. -7. Improve gold. -8. Improve objcopy/strip. PR 2995/6473. -9. Improve objdump -g. PR 6483. -10. Improve ld --sort-common. PR 6430. -11. Add multi-GOT support for m68k. -12. Fix various arm bugs. -13. Fix various avr bugs. -14. Fix various hppa bugs. -15. Fix various m68k bugs. -16. Fix various mips bugs. -17. Fix various mmix bugs. -18. Fix various ppc bugs. -19. Fix various spu bugs. -20. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2008 0502. -2. Add Intel EPT and MOVBE support. -3. Correct Intel FMA operand order. -4. Change Intel CLMUL to Intel PCLMUL. -5. Add -msse-check to x86 assembler to warn SSE instruction where -there is AVX equivalent. -6. Provide backward compatibility for ELF object files with more -than 64K sections generated by the older binutils. PR 6412. -7. Improve FDPIC support. -8. Add -wL switch to readelf to dump decoded contents of .debug_line. -9. Add -ag switch to assembler show general information in listings. -10. Improve objcopy symbol filtering performance. PR 6034. -12. Correct think archive support. -13. Improve ELF/Sparc support. -14. Fix various mips bugs. -15. Fix various sh bugs. -16. Fix various spu bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2008 0403. -2. Add Intel AES, CLMUL, AVX/FMA support. -3. Improve error handling in x86 linker for undefined hidden/internal -symbols when building a shared object. PR ld/5789/5943. -4. Add a new ELF linker, gold. -5. Add think archive support. -6. Fix various arm bugs. -7. Fix various avr bugs. -8. Fix various bfin bugs. -9. Fix various hppa bugs. -10. Fix various m68k bugs. -11. Fix various mips bugs. -12. Fix various s390 bugs. -13. Fix various spu bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2008 0314. -2. Add Intel XSAVE new instruction support. -3. Fix an ia64 linker crash on unsupported TLS relocations. PR 5913. -4. Fix x86 assembler for gcc 4.3. -5. Fix a linker memory corruption. PR 5788. -6. Correct linker 64k section support. PR 5900. -7. Correct hidden, weak and undefined symbol handling. PR 5789. -8. Fix linker for 64bit targets on 32bit hosts. PR 5303/5755. -9. Fix assembler crash with .set on register. PR 5543. -10. Fix a typo in linker. PR 5765. -11. Fix "string -O" infinite loop. PR 5713. -12. Fix .exitm in assembler. PR 5895. -13. Fix a linker crash. PR 5761. -14. Fix various arm bugs. -15. Fix various bfin bugs. -16. Fix various h8 bugs. -17. Fix various ppc bugs. -18. Fix various spu bugs. -19. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2008 0208. -2. Update readelf/objdump to dump DWARF frame info with machine -register names on x86. -3. Optimize x86-64 assembler to omit REX.W prefix when it is ignored. -4. Add operand size check to x86 assembler. PR 5534. -5. Add -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mmnemonic, -msyntax, -mindex-reg, --mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc options to x86 assembler. -6. Add -Mintel-mnemonic/-Mintel-mnemonic options to x86 disassembler. -7. Update x86 disassembler to handle r12 like rsp in memory operand. -8. Update x86 disassembler to properly support movntq, movntsd, -movntss, movntps, movntpd, movntdq and movntdqa. -9. Update x86 disassembler to support AMD nops. -10. Update x86 disassembler for cvtsi2ss/cvtsi2sd. -11. Fix x86 assembler to support new instructions on 2 different archs. -12. Update linker not to generate incorrect debug info for 64bit target -on 32bit host. PR 5303. -13. Update ia64 assembler to support new registers in Itanium 9100 -series. -14. Fix strip on PT_NOTE segment. PR 5488. -15. Fix strip/objcopy on HPUX/ia64. PR 5449. -16. Fix strip/objcopy for EFI. PR 5307. -17. Remove duplicated sections from objdump for COFF/PE. PR 5299. -18. Fix a linker corruption. PR 5522. -19. Fix mingw for 64bit targets. -20. Fix various arm bugs. -21. Fix various fr30 bugs. -22. Fix various frv bugs. -23. Fix various hppa bugs. -24. Fix various m10300 bugs. -25. Fix various m32r bugs. -26. Fix various m68k bugs. -27. Fix various mips bugs. -28. Fix various ppc bugs. -29. Fix various spu bugs. -30. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 1102. -2. Support link in Linux object files on FreeBSD. PR 4424. -3. Add Intel SMX instruction support to x86 assembler/diasassembler. -4. Fix an objcopy regression where we failed to adjust section -flags. PR 5233. -5. Improve irregular instruction support in x86 assembler. -6. Improve support for instructions with restricted operands in x86 -diasassembler. -7. Fix an x86-64 assembler bug where extra REX byte generated in Intel -mode. PR 5109. -8. Update .pushsection directive support in assembler. PRs 5221. -9. Improve linker -z relro support. -10. Add support for generating wide character strings in assembler. -11. Improve relocation process for DWARF debug info in readelf. -12. Add a linker warning for invalid merge section with unterminated -strings. -13. Improve linker support of DWARF debug info for discarded sections -during linker-relaxation. -14. Improve fabs detection. PR 5147. -15. Improve non-bash support. PR 5215. -16. Improve support for non-gcc compiler. PRs 5146/5160. -17. Improve error messages. PRs 5172/5173/5161/5158/5155/ -5121-5126/5129/5131-5137/5143/5142/5078/5089/5090. -18. Fix various cr16 bugs. -19. Fix various m10300 bugs. -20. Fix various mips bugs. -21. Fix various ppc bugs. -22. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.18.50.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 1001. -2. Speed up hash table lookup in linker. -3. Add -c/--archive-index option to readelf. -4. Fix an readelf crash. PR 5011. -5. Fix an x86 assembler Intel mode bug. PR 5080. -6. Add EIP support in x86 assembler. -7. Add fake index registers, EIZ/RIZ, to x86 assembler/disassembler. -8. Improve x86 assembler error message for truncated values. PR 5026. -9. Remove a COFF assertion in COFF assembler. PR 5035. -10. Add AMD SSE5 support to x86 assembler/disassembler. -11. Fix x86 assembler for extrq/insertq in Intel mode. -12. Fix x86 disassembler for invalid opcodes in 64bit. PR 5072. -13. Fix auto-import in PE-COFF linker. PR 4844. -14. Correct -z now in ELF linker. -15. Fix a --build-id linker crash. PR 5025. -16. Improved x86 assembler/disassembler infrastructure for new -instruction support. -17. Fix various m68k bugs. -18. Fix various ppc bugs. -19. Fix various spu bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.18: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0908. -2. Fix an ELF linker for SHT_NOBITS sections. PR 2864/5006. -3. Improve TLS transition check in i386 and x86-64 linkers. -4. Fix a GD->LE/LD->LE TLS transition bug in i386 and x86-64 linkers. -PR 4918. -5. Update ELF linker to dump segment map when a section can't be allocated -in segment. PR 4909. -6. Clean up x86 disassembler to remove fixups and make it more -table driven. -7. Fix x86 disassember for SSE instructions in Intel mode. PR 4834. -8. Properly handle bss segments in ELF linker. -9. Add --string-dump to readelf. -10. Fix objcopy -R .debug_* --only-keep-debug regression. PR 4888. -11. Change x86 assembler to follow SVME specification. -12. Fix x86 assembler for cmpxchg8b, pextrb and pinsrb in Intel mode. -13. Update x86 assembler to better handle expressions with @GOT suffix. -PR 4079. -14. Properly handle section alignment >= 128 byte for PECOFF. -15. Fix an ELF linker --build-id option crash. PR 4923. -16. Fix binutils build on HP-UX. PR 4875. -17. Fix a regression of the a.out linker -N option. PR 4515. -18. Update x86 disassembler for invlpg, fxsave, fxrstor, ldmxcsr and -stmxcsr in Intel mode. -19. Fix x86 assembler for SSE4 instructions in Intel mode. -20. Fix various arm bugs. -21. Fix various mips bugs. -22. Fix various ppc bugs. -23. Fix various spu bugs. -24. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.17: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0731. -2. Switching from GPLv2 to GPLv3. -3. Add a new ELF linker option, --build-id, to generate a unique -per-binary identifier embedded in a note section. -4. Remove COFF/x86-64 from PE-COFF/x86-64. -5. Fix a "nm -l" crash on DWARF info. PR 4797. -6. Match symbol type when creating symbol aliase in ELF shared library. -7. Fix addr2line on relocatable linux kernel. PR 4756. -8. Change disassembler to print addend as signed. -9. Support section alignment from 128 to 8192 bytes for PE-COFF. -10. Add attribute section to ELF linker. -11. Fix ELF linker to meet gABI alignment requirement. PR 4701. -12. Add support for reading in debug information via a .gnu_debuglink -section. -13. Fix string merge for ia64 linker. PR 4590. -14. Add --common to size to display total size for *COM* syms. -15. Fix "strip --strip-unneeded" on relocatable files. PR 4716. -16. Fix "objcopy/strip --only-keep-debug" for SHT_NOTE sections. -17. Fix objdump -S with unit-at-a-time. -18. Properly handle "-shared -pie" in linker. PR 4409. -19. Fix x86 disassembler in Intel mode for various SIMD instruction. -PRs 4667/4834. -20. Update x86-64 assembler to long nop sequence by default. -21. Fix --32 for x86-64 mingw assembler. -22. Fix a memory corruption in assembler. PR 4722. -22. Properly support 64bit PE-COFF on hosts where long isn't 64bit. -23. Add #line in generated linker source files. -24. Fix linker crash on SIZEOF. PR 4782. -27. Add CR16 support. -28. Add windmc tool for Windows. -29. Generate x86 instruction/register definitions from ascii tables. -30. Fix strip for Solaris. PR 4712. -31. Fix various mips bugs. -32. Fix various ppc bugs. -33. Fix various spu bugs. -34. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.16: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0615. -2. Preserve section alignment for copy relocation. PR 4504. -3. Properly fix regression with objcopy --only-keep-debug. PR 4479. -4. Fix ELF eh frame handling. PR 4497. -5. Fix ia64 string merge. PR 4590. -5. Don't use PE target on EFI files nor EFI target on PE files. -6. Speed up linker with many input files. -7. Support cross compiling windres. PR 2737. -8. Fix various windres bugs. -9. Fix various arms bugs. -10. Fix various m68k bugs. -11. Fix various mips bugs. -12. Fix various ppc bugs. -13. Fix various sparc bugs. -14. Fix various spu bugs. -15. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.15: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0511. -2. Fix objcopy --only-keep-debug and linker multiple BSS sections handling. -PR 4479. -3. Fix "readelf -s -D" for gnu hash. PR 4476. -4. Fix ia64 linker crash with --unresolved-symbols=ignore-all. PR 4409. -5. Improve crc32 support in x86 assembler/dissassembler. -6. Improve displacement handling in x86 dissassembler. PR 4430. -7. Correct PC relative displacement handling in x86-64 dissassembler for -Intel mode. PR 4429. -8. Fix various PPC bugs. -9. Fix various SPU bugs. -10. Fix various ARM bugs. -11. Fix various m68k bugs. -12. Fix various xtensa bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.14: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0418. -2. Support Intel SSE4 instructions. -3. Fix linker --fatal-warnings for --warn-shared-textrel. PR 4304. -4. Improve linker error message to identify linker script error -location. PR 4090. -5. Fix objcopy to allow removing all sections. PR 4348. -6. Don't print addresses of 32-bit targets as 64-bit values on 64bit -host. PR 4292. -7. Improve checking for corrupted input files. PR 4110. -8. Improve alpha linker performance. -9. Add a new linker option, -l:foo. -10. Fix a PPC linker bug. PR 4267. -11. Misc vxworks bug fixes. -12. Misc SH bug fixes. -13. Misc SPU bug fixes. -14. Misc ARM bug fixes. -15. Misc MIPS bug fixes. -16. Misc xtensa bug fixes. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.13: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0322. -2. Fix >16byte nop padding regression in x86 assembler. -3. Fix x86-64 disassembler for xchg. PR 4218. -4. Optimize opcode for x86-64 xchg. -5. Allow register operand with x86 nop. -6. Properly handle holes between sections for PE-COFF. PR 4210. -7. Print more PE-COFF info for objdump -p. -8. Report missing matching LO16 relocation for HI16 relocation in mips -linker. -9. Use PC-relative relocation for Win64. -10. Fix strip for Solaris. PR 3535. -11. Fix a C++ demangler crash. -12. Some m32c update. -13. Fix misc ARM bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.12: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0315. -2. Add EFI/x86-64 support. -3. Fix ELF linker for relocation against STN_UNDEF. PR 3958. -4. Fix ELF linker for SHT_NOBITS section whose VMA > page size. PR 4144. -5. Make assembler and disassembler consistent for "test %eax,%ebx". PR -4027. -6. Fix i386 32bit address wraparound. PR 3966. -7. Allow Linux/i386 linker to read FreeBSD/i386 object files. -8. Fix ELF linker crash upon use of .gnu.warning.<symbol> sections. PR -3953. -9. Fix ELF linker to issue an error on bad section in segment. PR 4007. -10. Support enabling both x86_64-mingw32 and i386-mingw32. PR 3945. -11. Fix assembler to stabilize .gcc_except_table relaxation. PR 4029. -12. Fix a MIPS linker crash. PR 3852. -13. Fix readelf for h8300-elf. PR 3800. -14. Fix strip for Solaris. PR 3535. -15. Misc xtensa bug fixes. -16. Misc PPC bug fixes. -17. Misc SPU bug fixes. -18. Add support for Toshiba MeP. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.11: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0128. -2. Remove duplicate code in x86 assembler. -3. Fix 32bit and 64bit HPPA/ELF. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.10: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0125. -2. Support environment variables, LD_SYMBOLIC for -Bsymbolic and -LD_SYMBOLIC_FUNCTIONS for -Bsymbolic-functions. -3. Build binutils rpm with LD_SYMBOLIC_FUNCTIONS=1 and reduce PLT -relocations in libfd.so by 84%. -4. Enable sharable sections only for ia32, x86-64 and ia64. -5. Properly handle PT_GNU_RELRO segment for objcopy. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.9: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0122. -2. Implement sharable section proposal for ia32, x86-64 and ia64: - -http://groups-beta.google.com/group/generic-abi - -3. Implement linker enhancement, -Bsymbolic-functions, ---dynamic-list-cpp-new and --dynamic-list-data. PR 3831. -4. Implement new linker switch, --default-script=FILE/-dT FILE. -5. Check EI_OSABI when reading ELF files. PR 3826. -6. Fix x86 assembler error message. PR 3830. -7. Fix a bug in ld testsuite. PR 1283. -8. Don't include archive64.o for 32bit target. PR 3631. -9. Support -z max-page-size and -z common-page-size in user provided -linker script. -10. Fix 32bit library support for GNU/kFreeBSD/x86-64. PR 3843. -11. Fix some bugs in Score assembler. PR 3871. -12. Fix various bugs in ARM assembler. PR 3707 and more. -13. Add Fido support. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.8: - -1. Update from binutils 2007 0103. -2. Fix --wrap linker bug. -3. Improve handling ELF binaries generated by foreign ELF linkers. -4. Various ELF M68K bug fixes. -5. Score bug fixes. -6. Don't read past end of archive elements. PR 3704. -7. Improve .eh_frame_hdr section handling. -8. Fix symbol visibility with comdat/linkonce sections in ELF linker. -PR 3666. -9. Fix 4 operand instruction handling in x86 assembler. -10. Properly check the 4th operand in x86 assembler. PR 3712. -11. Fix .cfi_endproc handling in assembler. PR 3607. -12. Various ARM bug fixes. -13. Various PE linker fixes. -14. Improve x86 dissassembler for cmpxchg16b. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.7: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 1201. -2. Fix "objcopy --only-keep-debug" crash. PR 3609. -3. Fix various ARM ELF bugs. -4. Fix various xtensa bugs. -5. Update x86 disassembler. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 1127. -2. Properly set ELF output segment address when the first section in -input segment is removed. -3. Better merging of CIEs in linker .eh_frame optimizations. -4. Support .cfi_personality and .cfi_lsda assembler directives. -5. Fix an ARM linker crash. PR 3532. -6. Fix various PPC64 ELF bugs. -7. Mark discarded debug info more thoroughly in linker output. -8. Fix various MIPS ELF bugs. -9. Fix readelf to display program interpreter path > 64 chars. PR 3384. -10. Add support for PowerPC SPU. -11. Properly handle cloned symbols used in relocations in assembler. PR -3469. -12. Update opcode for POPCNT in amdfam10 architecture. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 1020. -2. Don't make debug symbol dynamic. PR 3290. -3. Don't page align empty SHF_ALLOC sections, which leads to very large -executables. PR 3314. -4. Use a different section index for section relative symbols against -removed empty sections. -5. Fix a few ELF EH frame handling bugs. -6. Don't ignore relocation overflow on branches to undefweaks for -x86-64. PR 3283. -7. Rename MNI to SSSE3. -8. Properly append symbol list for --dynamic-list. -lists. -9. Various ARM ELF fixes. -10. Correct 64bit library search path for Linux/x86 linker with 64bit -support. -11. Fix ELF linker to copy OS/PROC specific flags from input section to -output section. -12. Fix DW_FORM_ref_addr handling in linker dwarf reader. PR 3191. -13. Fix ELF indirect symbol handling. PR 3351. -14. Fix PT_GNU_RELRO segment handling for SHF_TLS sections. Don't add -PT_GNU_RELRO segment when there are no relro sections. PR 3281. -15. Various MIPS ELF fixes. -16. Various Sparc ELF fixes. -17. Various Xtensa ELF fixes. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 0927. -2. Fix linker regressions of section address and section relative symbol -with empty output section. PR 3223/3267. -3. Fix "strings -T". PR 3257. -4. Fix "objcopy --only-keep-debug". PR 3262. -5. Add Intell iwmmxt2 support. -6. Fix an x86 disassembler bug. PR 3100. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 0924. -2. Speed up linker on .o files with debug info on linkonce sections. -PR 3111. -3. Added x86-64 PE support. -4. Fix objcopy/strip on .o files with section groups. PR 3181. -5. Fix "ld --hash-style=gnu" crash with gcc 3.4.6. PR 3197. -6. Fix "strip --strip-debug" on .o files generated with -"gcc -feliminate-dwarf2-dups". PR 3186. -7. Fix "ld -r" on .o files generated with "gcc -feliminate-dwarf2-dups". -PR 3249. -8. Add --dynamic-list to linker to make global symbols dynamic. -9. Fix magic number for EFI ia64. PR 3171. -10. Remove PT_NULL segment for "ld -z relro". PR 3015. -11. Make objcopy to perserve the file formats in archive elements. -PR 3110. -12. Optimize x86-64 assembler and fix disassembler for -"add32 mov xx,$eax". PR 3235. -13. Improve linker diagnostics. PR 3107. -14. Fix "ld --sort-section name". PR 3009. -15. Updated an x86 disassembler bug. PR 3000. -16. Various updates for PPC, ARM, MIPS, SH, Xtensa. -17. Added Score support. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 0715. -2. Add --hash-style to ELF linker with DT_GNU_HASH and SHT_GNU_HASH. -3. Fix a visibility bug in ELF linker (PR 2884). -4. Properly fix the i386 TLS linker bug (PR 2513). -5. Add assembler and dissassembler support for Pentium Pro nops. -6. Optimize x86 nops for Pentium Pro and above. -7. Add -march=/-mtune= to x86 assembler. -8. Fix an ELF linker with TLS common symbols. -9. Improve program header allocation in ELF linker. -10. Improve MIPS, M68K and ARM support. -11. Fix an ELF linker crash when reporting alignment change (PR 2735). -12. Remove unused ELF section symbols (PR 2723). -13. Add --localize-hidden to objcopy. -14. Add AMD SSE4a and ABM new instruction support. -15. Properly handle illegal x86 instructions in group 11 (PR 2829). -16. Add "-z max-page-size=" and "-z common-page-size=" to ELF linker. -17. Fix objcopy for .tbss sections. - -Changes from binutils 2.17.50.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 0526. -2. Change the x86-64 maximum page size to 2MB. -3. Support --enable-targets=all for 64bit target and host (PR 1485). -4. Properly update CIE/FDE length and align section for .eh_frame -section (PR 2655/2657). -5. Properly handle removed ELF section symbols. -6. Fix an ELF linker regression introduced on 2006-04-21. -7. Fix an segfault in PPC ELF linker (PR 2658). -8. Speed up the ELF linker by caching the result of kept section check. -9. Properly create stabs section for ELF. -10. Preserve ELF program header when copying ELF files. -11. Properly handle ELF SHN_LOPROC/SHN_HIOS when checking section -index (PR 2607). -12. Misc mips updates. -13. Misc arm updates. -14. Misc xtensa updates. -15. Fix an alpha assembler warning (PR 2598). -16. Fix assembler buffer overflow. -17. Properly disassemble sgdt/sidt for x86-64. - -Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.7: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 0427. -2. Fix an objcopy regression (PR 2593). -3. Reduce ar memory usage (PR 2467). -4. Allow application specific ELF sections (PR 2537). -5. Fix an i386 TLS linker bug (PR 2513). -6. Speed up ia64 linker by 1300X in some cases (PR 2442). -7. Check illegal immediate register operand in i386 assembler (PR -2533). -8. Fix a strings bug (PR 2584). -9. Better handle corrupted ELF files (PR 2257). -10. Fix a MIPS linker bug (PR 2267). - -Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 0317. -2. Support Intel Merom New Instructions in assembler/disassembler. -3. Support Intel new instructions in Montecito. -4. Fix linker "--as-needed" (PR 2434). -5. Fix linker "-s" regression (PR 2462). -6. Fix REP prefix for string instructions in x86 disassembler -(PR 2428). -7. Fix the weak undefined symbols in PIE (PR 2218). -8. Fix 2 DWARF reader bugs (PRs 2443, 2338). -9. Improve ELF linker error message (PR 2322). -10. Avoid abort with dynamic symbols in >64K sections (PR 2411). -11. Handle mismatched symbol types for executables (PR 2404). -12. Avoid a linker linkonce regression (PR 2342). - -Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2006 0212. -2. Correct Linux linker search order for DT_NEEDED entries (PR 2290). -3. Fix the x86-64 disassembler for control/debug register moves. -4. Properly handle ELF strip/objcopy with unmodified program header -(PR 2258). -5. Improve ELF linker error handling when there are not enough room for -program headers (PR 2322). -6. Properly handle weak undefined symbols in PIE (PR 2218). -7. Support new i386/x86-64 TLS relocations. -8. Fix addr2line for linux kernel (PR 2096). -9. Fix an assembler memory leak with --statistics. -10. Avoid an ia64 assembler regression (PR 2117). - -Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 1219. -2. Fix a MIPS linker regression (PR 1932). -3. Fix an objcopy bug for ia64 (PR 1991). -4. Fix a linker crash on bad input (PR 2008). -5. Fix 64bit monitor and mwait (PR 1874). - -Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 1111. -2. Fix ELF orphan section handling (PR 1467) -3. Fix ELF section attribute handleing (PR 1487). -4. Fix IA64 unwind info dump for relocatable files. (PR 1436). -5. Add DWARF info dump to objdump. -6. Fix SHF_LINK_ORDER handling (PR 1321). -7. Don't allow "ld --just-symbols" on DSO (PR 1263). -8. Fix a "ld -u" crash on TLS symbol (PR 1301). -9. Fix an IA64 linker crash (PR 1247). -10. Fix a MIPS linker bug (PR 1150). -11. Fix a M68K linker bug (PR 1775). -12. Fix an ELF symbol versioning linker bug (PR 1540). -13. Improve linker error handling (PR 1208). -14. Add new SPARC processors to SunOS for objcopy (PR 1472). -15. Add "@file" to read options from a file. -16. Add assembler weakref support. - -Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 0821. -2. Support x86-64 medium model. -3. Fix "objdump -S --adjust-vma=xxx" (PR 1179). -4. Reduce R_IA64_NONE relocations from R_IA64_LDXMOV relaxation. -5. Fix x86 linker regression for dosemu. -6. Add "readelf -t/--section-details" to display section details. -7. Fix "as -al=file" regression (PR 1118). - -Changes from binutils 2.16.91.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 0720. -2. Add Intel VMX support. -3. Add AMD SVME support. -4. Add x86-64 new relocations for medium model. -5. Fix a PIE regression (PR 975). -6. Fix an x86_64 signed 32bit displacement regression. -7. Fix PPC PLT (PR 1004). -8. Improve empty section removal. - -Changes from binutils 2.16.90.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 0622. -2. Fix a linker versioning bug exposed by gcc 4 (PR 1022/1023/1025). -3. Optimize ia64 br->brl relaxation (PR 834). -4. Improve linker empty section removal. -5. Fix DWARF 2 line number reporting (PR 990). -6. Fix DWARF 2 line number reporting regression on assembly file (PR -1000). - -Changes from binutils 2.16.90.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 0510. -2. Update ia64 assembler to support comdat group section generated by -gcc 4 (PR 940). -3. Fix a linker crash on bad input (PR 939). -4. Fix a sh64 assembler regression (PR 936). -5. Support linker script on executable (PR 882). -6. Fix the linker -pie regression (PR 878). -7. Fix an x86_64 disassembler bug (PR 843). -8. Fix a PPC linker regression. -9. Misc speed up. - -Changes from binutils 2.16.90.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 0429. -2. Fix an ELF linker regression (PR 815). -3. Fix an empty section removal related bug. -4. Fix an ia64 linker regression (PR 855). -5. Don't allow local symbol to be equated common/undefined symbols (PR -857). -6. Fix the ia64 linker to handle local dynamic symbol error reporting. -7. Make non-debugging reference to discarded section an error (PR 858). -8. Support Sparc/TLS. -9. Support rpm build with newer rpm. -10. Fix an alpha linker regression. -11. Fix the non-gcc build regression. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.94.0.2.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2005 0408. -2. The i386/x86_64 assemblers no longer accept instructions for moving -between a segment register and a 32bit memory location. -3. The x86_64 assembler now allows movq between a segment register and -a 64bit general purpose register. -4. 20x Speed up linker for input files with >64K sections. -5. Properly report ia64 linker relaxation failures. -6. Support tuning ia64 assembler for Itanium 2 processors. -7. Linker will remove empty unused output sections. -8. Add -N to readelf to display full section names. -9. Fix the ia64 linker to support linkonce text sections without unwind -sections. -10. More unwind directive checkings in the ia64 assembler. -11. Speed up linker with wildcard handling. -12. Fix readelf to properly dump .debug_ranges and .debug_loc sections. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.94.0.2: - -1. Fix greater than 64K section support in linker. -2. Properly handle i386 and x86_64 protected symbols in linker. -3. Fix readelf for LEB128 on 64bit hosts. -4. Speed up readelf for section group process. -5. Include ia64 texinfo pages. -6. Change ia64 assembler to check hint.b for Montecito. -7. Improve relaxation failure report in ia64 linker. -8. Fix ia64 linker to allow relax backward branch in the same section. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.94.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 1220. -2. Fix strip for TLS symbol references. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.92.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 1121. -2. Put ia64 .ctors/.dtors sections next to small data section for -Intel ia64 compiler. -3. Fix -Bdynamic/-Bstatic handling for linker script. -4. Provide more information on relocation overflow. -5. Add --sort-section to linker. -6. Support icc 8.1 unwind info in readelf. -7. Fix the infinite loop bug on bad input in the ia64 assembler. -8. Fix ia64 SECREL relocation in linker. -9. Fix a section group memory leak in readelf. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.91.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 0927. -2. Work around a section header bug in Intel ia64 compiler. -3. Fix an unwind directive bug in the ia64 assembler. -4. Fix various PPC bugs. -5. Update ARM support. -6. Fix an x86-64 linker warning while building Linux kernel. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.91.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 0727. -2. Fix the x86_64 linker to prevent non-PIC code in shared library. -3. Fix the ia64 linker to warn the relotable files which can't be -relaxed. -4. Fix the comdat group support. Allow mix single-member comdat group -with linkonce section. -5. Added --add-needed/--no-add-needed options to linker. -6. Fix the SHF_LINK_ORDER support. -7. Fix the ia64 assembler for multiple sections with the same name and -SHT_IA_64_UNWIND sections. -8. Fix the ia64 assembler for merge section and relaxation. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 0527. -2. Fix -x auto option in the ia64 assembler. -3. Add the AR check in the ia64 assembler. -4. Fix the section group support. -5. Add a new -z relro linker option. -6. Fix an exception section placement bug in linker. -7. Add .serialize.data and .serialize.instruction to the ia64 -assembler. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 0415. -2. Fix the linker for weak undefined symbol handling. -3. Fix the ELF/Sparc and ELF/Sparc64 linker for statically linking PIC -code. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.1.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 0412. -2. Add --as-needed/--no-as-needed to linker. -3. Fix -z defs in linker. -4. Always reserve the memory for ia64 dynamic linker. -5. Fix a race condition in ia64 lazy binding. - -Changes from binutils 2.15.90.0.1: - -1. Fixed an ia64 assembler bug. -2. Install the assembler man page. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.8: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 0303. -2. Fixed linker for undefined symbols with non-default visibility. -3. Sped up linker weakdef symbol handling. -4. Fixed mixing ELF32 and ELF64 object files in archive. -5. Added ia64 linker brl optimization. -6. Fixed ia64 linker to disallow invalid dynamic relocations. -7. Fixed DT_TEXTREL handling in ia64 linker. -8. Fixed alignment handling in ia64 assembler. -9. Improved ia64 assembler unwind table handling. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.7: - -1. Update from binutils 2004 0114. -2. Fixed an ia64 assembler unwind table bug. -3. Better handle IPF linker relaxation overflow. -4. Fixed misc PPC bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.6: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 1029. -2. Allow type changes for undefined symbols. -3. Fix EH frame optimization. -4. Fix the check for undefined versioned symbol with wildcard. -5. Support generating code for Itanium. -6. Detect and warn bad symbol index. -7. Update IPF assemebler DV check. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.5: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 0820. -2. No longer use section names for ELF section types nor flags. -3. Fix some ELF/IA64 linker bugs. -4. Fix some ELF/ppc bugs. -5. Add archive support to readelf. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.4.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 0722. -2. Fix an ELF/mips linker bug. -3. Fix an ELF/hpppa linker bug. -4. Fix an ELF/ia64 assembler bug. -5. Fix a linkonce support with C++ debug. -6. A new working C++ demangler. -7. Various alpha, mips, ia64, ... bug fixes. -8. Support for the current gcc and glibc. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.4: - -1. Fix an ia64 assembler hint@pause bug. -2. Support Intel Prescott New Instructions. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.3: - -1. Work around the brain dead libtool. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 0523. -2. Fix 2 ELF visibility bugs. -3. Fix ELF/ppc linker bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.14.90.0.1: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 0515. -2. Fix various ELF visibility bugs. -3. Fix some ia64 linker bugs. -4. Add more IAS compatibilities to ia64 assembler. - -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.20: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 0505. -2. Fix various ELF visibility bugs. -3. Fix some ia64 linker bugs. -4. Fix some ia64 assembler bugs. -5. Add some IAS compatibilities to ia64 assembler. -6. Fix ELF common symbol alignment. -7. Fix ELF weak symbol handling. - -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.18: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 0319. -2. Fix an ia64 linker brl relaxation bug. -3. Fix some ELF/ppc linker bugs. - -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.16: - -1. Update from binutils 2003 0121. -2. Fix an ia64 gas bug. -3. Fix some TLS bugs. -4. Fix some ELF/ppc bugs. -5. Fix an ELF/m68k bug. - -2. Include /usr/bin/c++filt. -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.14: - -1. Update from binutils 2002 1126. -2. Include /usr/bin/c++filt. -3. Fix "ld -r" with execption handling. - -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.10: - -1. Update from binutils 2002 1114. -2. Fix ELF/alpha bugs. -3. Fix an ELF/i386 assembler bug. - -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.4: - -1. Update from binutils 2002 1010. -2. More ELF/PPC linker bug fixes. -3. Fix an ELF/alpha linker bug. -4. Fix an ELF/sparc linker bug to support Solaris. -5. More TLS updates. - -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.3: - -1. Update from binutils 2002 0814. -2. Fix symbol versioning bugs for gcc 3.2. -3. Fix mips gas. - -Changes from binutils 2.13.90.0.2: - -1. Update from binutils 2002 0809. -2. Fix a mips gas compatibility bug. -3. Fix an x86 TLS bfd bug. -4. Fix an x86 PIC gas bug. -5. Improve symbol versioning support. - -The file list: - -1. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.tar.bz2. Source code. -2. binutils-2.18.50.0.8-2.18.50.0.9.diff.bz2. Patch against the - previous beta source code. -3. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.i686.tar.bz2. IA-32 binary tar ball for RedHat - EL 4. -4. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.ia64.tar.bz2. IA-64 binary tar ball for RedHat - EL 4. -5. binutils-2.18.50.0.9.x86_64.tar.bz2. X64_64 binary tar ball for RedHat - EL 4. - -The primary sites for the beta Linux binutils are: - -1. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ - -Thanks. - - -H.J. Lu -hjl.tools@gmail.com -08/23/2008 |