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| * readelf: Support added for DWARF 2.1 extensions. Support added for | |
| displaying the contents of .debug.macinfo sections. | |
| * New command line switches added to objcopy to allow symbols to be kept as | |
| global symbols, and also to specify files containing lists of such symbols. | |
| by Honda Hiroki. | |
| * Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg. | |
| * New command line switch to objcopy -B (or --binary-architecture) which sets | |
| the architecture of the output file to the given argument. This option only | |
| makes sense, if the input target is binary. Otherwise it is ignored. | |
| By Stefan Geuken. | |
| * Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.11: | |
| * Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM | |
| extenstions. | |
| * Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy. | |
| By Luciano Gemme. | |
| * Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander. | |
| * Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt. | |
| * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). | |
| Changes in binutils 2.10: | |
| * Support for 64-bit ELF on HPPA. | |
| * New command line switch to objdump --file-start-context which shows the | |
| entire file contents up to the source line first encountered for a given | |
| file. | |
| * New command line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes | |
| a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the | |
| disassembler. Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or | |
| raw verions. | |
| * objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed | |
| with intel syntax. | |
| * New program: readelf. This displays the contents of ELF format files, | |
| regardless of target machine. | |
| * objcopy now takes --change-section-lma, --change-section-vma, and | |
| --change-section-address options. The old --adjust-section-vma option is | |
| equivalent to --change-section-address. The other --adjust-* options are now | |
| renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work. | |
| * objcopy has a --redefine-sym option that lets you rename symbols. | |
| * objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified | |
| sections. | |
| * dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command. | |
| * dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols, | |
| --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.9: | |
| * Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32 | |
| files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT. | |
| * The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than | |
| the VMA of the sections. | |
| * Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.8: | |
| * The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved. Use | |
| the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format. There are also new | |
| --disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler | |
| output. | |
| * Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets. For example, | |
| objdump -b i386-pc-linux. The triplets are not passed through config.sub, | |
| so they must be in canonical form. | |
| * Added new addr2line program. This uses the debugging information to convert | |
| an address into a file name and line number within a program. | |
| * Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
| * Added --weaken argument to objcopy. | |
| * objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries. | |
| * Added --adjust-vma option to objdump. | |
| * Added -C/--demangle option to objdump. | |
| * Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.7: | |
| * Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure. | |
| * Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy. | |
| * Added --defined-only argument to nm. | |
| * Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy. | |
| * The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc. | |
| * Added --line-numbers option to nm. | |
| * Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump. | |
| * Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.6: | |
| * Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy. | |
| * Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new | |
| file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit | |
| generating plain binary files. | |
| * Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump. | |
| * ar and ranlib now work on AIX. The tools are now built by default on AIX. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.5: | |
| * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly | |
| listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files. | |
| * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections. | |
| Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections. | |
| * Added --size-sort option to nm. | |
| * strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF | |
| executables. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.4: | |
| * Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and | |
| PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor). | |
| * Support for Irix 5. | |
| * Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked | |
| ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.3: | |
| * A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in | |
| ELF and COFF files. | |
| * A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into | |
| Novell NetWare Loadable Modules. | |
| * The strings program has been added. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.2: | |
| * The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with | |
| 'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for | |
| 'cp'. | |
| * The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded | |
| (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names. (Note: This | |
| may get moved to the gcc distribution.) | |
| * nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching | |
| the output from BSD nm. | |
| * ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives. | |
| * New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH. | |
| * Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb. | |
| * There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use. | |
| * There is the beginnings of a test suite. | |
| Changes in binutils 2.1: | |
| * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities | |
| should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. Please let us know how well this works. | |
| * ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD | |
| version), if there are any object files in the archive. So running ranlib is | |
| now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used). This is required | |
| for Posix.2 conformance. | |
| * The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives | |
| independently of the selected target format. This is to encourage people to | |
| switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages. | |
| * The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only | |
| and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options. | |
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