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| * Add support for the Freescale S12Z architecture. | |
| * Add --generate-missing-build-notes=[yes|no] option to create (or not) GNU | |
| Build Attribute notes if none are present in the input sources. Add a | |
| --enable-generate-build-notes=[yes|no] configure time option to set the | |
| default behaviour. Set the default if the configure option is not used | |
| to "no". | |
| * Remove -mold-gcc command-line option for x86 targets. | |
| * Add -O[2|s] command-line options to x86 assembler to enable alternate | |
| shorter instruction encoding. | |
| * Add support for .nops directive. It is currently supported only for | |
| x86 targets. | |
| Changes in 2.30: | |
| * Add support for loaction views in DWARF debug line information. | |
| Changes in 2.29: | |
| * Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND. | |
| * Add support for the WebAssembly file format and wasm32 ELF conversion. | |
| * PowerPC gas now checks that the correct register class is used in | |
| instructions. For instance, "addi %f4,%cr3,%r31" warns three times | |
| that the registers are invalid. | |
| * Add support for the Texas Instruments PRU processor. | |
| * Support for the ARMv8-R architecture and Cortex-R52 processor has been | |
| added to the ARM port. | |
| Changes in 2.28: | |
| * Add support for the RISC-V architecture. | |
| * Add support for the ARM Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 processors. | |
| Changes in 2.27: | |
| * Default to --enable-compressed-debug-sections=gas for Linux/x86 targets. | |
| * Add --no-pad-sections to stop the assembler from padding the end of output | |
| sections up to their alignment boundary. | |
| * Support for the ARMv8-M architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support | |
| for the ARMv8-M Security and DSP Extensions has also been added to the ARM | |
| port. | |
| * ARC backend accepts .extInstruction, .extCondCode, .extAuxRegister, and | |
| .extCoreRegister pseudo-ops that allow an user to define custom | |
| instructions, conditional codes, auxiliary and core registers. | |
| * Add a configure option --enable-elf-stt-common to decide whether ELF | |
| assembler should generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type by | |
| default. Default to no. | |
| * New command line option --elf-stt-common= for ELF targets to control | |
| whether to generate common symbols with the STT_COMMON type. | |
| * Add ability to set section flags and types via numeric values for ELF | |
| based targets. | |
| * Add a configure option --enable-x86-relax-relocations to decide whether | |
| x86 assembler should generate relax relocations by default. Default to | |
| yes, except for x86 Solaris targets older than Solaris 12. | |
| * New command line option -mrelax-relocations= for x86 target to control | |
| whether to generate relax relocations. | |
| * New command line option -mfence-as-lock-add=yes for x86 target to encode | |
| lfence, mfence and sfence as "lock addl $0x0, (%[re]sp)". | |
| * Add assembly-time relaxation option for ARC cpus. | |
| * Add --with-cpu=TYPE configure option for ARC gas. This allows the default | |
| cpu type to be adjusted at configure time. | |
| Changes in 2.26: | |
| * Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,gas} to | |
| decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default. | |
| * Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. Remove | |
| assembler support for Argonaut RISC architectures. | |
| * Symbol and label names can now be enclosed in double quotes (") which allows | |
| them to contain characters that are not part of valid symbol names in high | |
| level languages. | |
| * Added the correctly spelled -march=armv6kz, for ARMv6KZ support. The | |
| previous spelling, -march=armv6zk, is still accepted. | |
| * Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the Aarch64 port. | |
| Support for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD, LOR and PAN architecture | |
| extensions has also been added to the Aarch64 port. | |
| * Support for the ARMv8.1 architecture has been added to the ARM port. Support | |
| for the individual ARMv8.1 Adv.SIMD and PAN architecture extensions has also | |
| been added to the ARM port. | |
| * Extend --compress-debug-sections option to support | |
| --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF | |
| targets. | |
| * --compress-debug-sections is turned on for Linux/x86 by default. | |
| Changes in 2.25: | |
| * Add support for the AVR Tiny microcontrollers. | |
| * Replace support for openrisc and or32 with support for or1k. | |
| * Enhanced the ARM port to accept the assembler output from the CodeComposer | |
| Studio tool. Support is enabled via the new command line option -mccs. | |
| * Add support for the Andes NDS32. | |
| Changes in 2.24: | |
| * Add support for the Texas Instruments MSP430X processor. | |
| * Add -gdwarf-sections command line option to enable per-code-section | |
| generation of DWARF .debug_line sections. | |
| * Add support for Altera Nios II. | |
| * Add support for the Imagination Technologies Meta processor. | |
| * Add support for the v850e3v5. | |
| * Remove assembler support for MIPS ECOFF targets. | |
| Changes in 2.23: | |
| * Add support for the 64-bit ARM architecture: AArch64. | |
| * Add support for S12X processor. | |
| * Add support for the VLE extension to the PowerPC architecture. | |
| * Add support for the Freescale XGATE architecture. | |
| * Add support for .bundle_align_mode, .bundle_lock, and .bundle_unlock | |
| directives. These are currently available only for x86 and ARM targets. | |
| * Add support for the Renesas RL78 architecture. | |
| * Add support for the Adapteva EPIPHANY architecture. | |
| * For x86, allow 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax. | |
| Changes in 2.22: | |
| * Add support for the Tilera TILEPro and TILE-Gx architectures. | |
| Changes in 2.21: | |
| * Gas no longer requires doubling of ampersands in macros. | |
| * Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family. | |
| * GAS now understands an extended syntax in the .section directive flags | |
| for COFF targets that allows the section's alignment to be specified. This | |
| feature has also been backported to the 2.20 release series, starting with | |
| 2.20.1. | |
| * Add support for the Renesas RX processor. | |
| * New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests | |
| compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output | |
| file. Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and | |
| gold, but not currently by Gnu ld. | |
| Changes in 2.20: | |
| * Added support for v850e2 and v850e2v3. | |
| * GNU/Linux targets now supports "gnu_unique_object" as a value in the .type | |
| pseudo op. It marks the symbol as being globally unique in the entire | |
| process. | |
| * ARM assembler now supports .inst[.nw] pseudo-ops to insert opcodes specified | |
| in binary rather than text. | |
| * Add support for common symbol alignment to PE formats. | |
| * Add support for the new discriminator column in the DWARF line table, | |
| with a discriminator operand for the .loc directive. | |
| * Add support for Sunplus score architecture. | |
| * The .type pseudo-op now accepts a type of STT_GNU_IFUNC which can be used to | |
| indicate that if the symbol is the target of a relocation, its value should | |
| not be use. Instead the function should be invoked and its result used as | |
| the value. | |
| * Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture. | |
| * Add support for Xilinx MicroBlaze architecture. | |
| Changes in 2.19: | |
| * New pseudo op .cfi_val_encoded_addr, to record constant addresses in unwind | |
| tables without runtime relocation. | |
| * New command line option, -h-tick-hex, for sh, m32c, and h8/300 targets, which | |
| adds compatibility with H'00 style hex constants. | |
| * New command line option, -msse-check=[none|error|warning], for x86 | |
| targets. | |
| * New sub-option added to the assembler's -a command line switch to | |
| generate a listing output. The 'g' sub-option will insert into the listing | |
| various information about the assembly, such as assembler version, the | |
| command line options used, and a time stamp. | |
| * New command line option -msse2avx for x86 target to encode SSE | |
| instructions with VEX prefix. | |
| * Add Intel XSAVE, EPT, MOVBE, AES, PCLMUL, AVX/FMA support for x86 target. | |
| * New command line options, -march=CPU[,+EXTENSION...], -mtune=CPU, | |
| -mmnemonic=[att|intel], -msyntax=[att|intel], -mindex-reg, | |
| -mnaked-reg and -mold-gcc, for x86 targets. | |
| * Support for generating wide character strings has been added via the new | |
| pseudo ops: .string16, .string32 and .string64. | |
| * Support for SSE5 has been added to the i386 port. | |
| Changes in 2.18: | |
| * The GAS sources are now released under the GPLv3. | |
| * Support for the National Semiconductor CR16 target has been added. | |
| * Added gas .reloc pseudo. This is a low-level interface for creating | |
| relocations. | |
| * Add support for x86_64 PE+ target. | |
| * Add support for Score target. | |
| Changes in 2.17: | |
| * Support for the Infineon XC16X has been added by KPIT Cummins Infosystems. | |
| * Support for ms2 architecture has been added. | |
| * Support for the Z80 processor family has been added. | |
| * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command line, so that extra | |
| switches can be read from <file>. | |
| * The SH target supports a new command line switch --enable-reg-prefix which, | |
| if enabled, will allow register names to be optionally prefixed with a $ | |
| character. This allows register names to be distinguished from label names. | |
| * Macros with a variable number of arguments are now supported. See the | |
| documentation for how this works. | |
| * Added --reduce-memory-overheads switch to reduce the size of the hash | |
| tables used, at the expense of longer assembly times, and | |
| --hash-size=<NUMBER> to set the size of the hash tables used by gas. | |
| * Macro names and macro parameter names can now be any identifier that would | |
| also be legal as a symbol elsewhere. For macro parameter names, this is | |
| known to cause problems in certain sources when the respective target uses | |
| characters inconsistently, and thus macro parameter references may no longer | |
| be recognized as such (see the documentation for details). | |
| * Support the .f_floating, .d_floating, .g_floating and .h_floating directives | |
| for the VAX target in order to be more compatible with the VAX MACRO | |
| assembler. | |
| * New command line option -mtune=[itanium1|itanium2] for IA64 targets. | |
| Changes in 2.16: | |
| * Redefinition of macros now results in an error. | |
| * New command line option -mhint.b=[ok|warning|error] for IA64 targets. | |
| * New command line option -munwind-check=[warning|error] for IA64 | |
| targets. | |
| * The IA64 port now uses automatic dependency violation removal as its default | |
| mode. | |
| * Port to MAXQ processor contributed by HCL Tech. | |
| * Added support for generating unwind tables for ARM ELF targets. | |
| * Add a -g command line option to generate debug information in the target's | |
| preferred debug format. | |
| * Support for the crx-elf target added. | |
| * Support for the sh-symbianelf target added. | |
| * Added a pseudo-op (.secrel32) to generate 32 bit section relative relocations | |
| on pe[i]-i386; required for this target's DWARF 2 support. | |
| * Support for Motorola MCF521x/5249/547x/548x added. | |
| * Support for ColdFire EMAC instructions added and Motorola syntax for MAC/EMAC | |
| instrucitons. | |
| * New command line option -mno-shared for MIPS ELF targets. | |
| * New command line option --alternate and pseudo-ops .altmacro and .noaltmacro | |
| added to enter (and leave) alternate macro syntax mode. | |
| Changes in 2.15: | |
| * The MIPS -membedded-pic option (Embedded-PIC code generation) is | |
| deprecated and will be removed in a future release. | |
| * Added PIC m32r Linux (ELF) and support to M32R assembler. | |
| * Added support for ARM V6. | |
| * Added support for sh4a and variants. | |
| * Support for Renesas M32R2 added. | |
| * Limited support for Mapping Symbols as specified in the ARM ELF | |
| specification has been added to the arm assembler. | |
| * On ARM architectures, added a new gas directive ".unreq" that undoes | |
| definitions created by ".req". | |
| * Support for Motorola ColdFire MCF528x added. | |
| * Added --gstabs+ switch to enable the generation of STABS debug format | |
| information with GNU extensions. | |
| * Added support for MIPS64 Release 2. | |
| * Added support for v850e1. | |
| * Added -n switch for x86 assembler. By default, x86 GAS replaces | |
| multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code sections | |
| with multi-byte nop instructions such as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi. This | |
| switch disables the optimization. | |
| * Removed -n option from MIPS assembler. It was not useful, and confused the | |
| existing -non_shared option. | |
| Changes in 2.14: | |
| * Added support for MIPS32 Release 2. | |
| * Added support for Xtensa architecture. | |
| * Support for Intel's iWMMXt processor (an ARM variant) added. | |
| * An assembler test generator has been contributed and an example file that | |
| uses it (gas/testsuite/gas/all/test-gen.c and test-exmaple.c). | |
| * Support for SH2E added. | |
| * GASP has now been removed. | |
| * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of | |
| DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal. | |
| * Support for the Ubicom IP2xxx microcontroller added. | |
| Changes in 2.13: | |
| * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400 | |
| and FR500 included. | |
| * Support for DLX processor added. | |
| * GASP has now been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use | |
| the macro facilities in GAS instead. | |
| * GASP now correctly parses floating point numbers. Unless the base is | |
| explicitly specified, they are interpreted as decimal numbers regardless of | |
| the currently specified base. | |
| Changes in 2.12: | |
| * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson. | |
| * Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores. | |
| * The ARM assembler now accepts -march=..., -mcpu=... and -mfpu=... for | |
| specifying the target instruction set. The old method of specifying the | |
| target processor has been deprecated, but is still accepted for | |
| compatibility. | |
| * Support for the VFP floating-point instruction set has been added to | |
| the ARM assembler. | |
| * New psuedo op: .incbin to include a set of binary data at a given point | |
| in the assembly. Contributed by Anders Norlander. | |
| * The MIPS assembler now accepts -march/-mtune. -mcpu has been deprecated | |
| but still works for compatability. | |
| * The MIPS assembler no longer issues a warning by default when it | |
| generates a nop instruction from a macro. The new command line option | |
| -n will turn on the warning. | |
| Changes in 2.11: | |
| * Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff. | |
| * x86 gas now supports the full Pentium4 instruction set. | |
| * Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs. | |
| * Support for Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12. | |
| * Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C54x (tic54x). | |
| * Support for IA-64. | |
| * Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt. | |
| * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). | |
| * x86 gas has a new .arch pseudo op to specify the target CPU architecture. | |
| * x86 gas -q command line option quietens warnings about register size changes | |
| due to suffix, indirect jmp/call without `*', stand-alone prefixes, and | |
| translating various deprecated floating point instructions. | |
| Changes in 2.10: | |
| * Support for the ARM msr instruction was changed to only allow an immediate | |
| operand when altering the flags field. | |
| * Support for ATMEL AVR. | |
| * Support for IBM 370 ELF. Somewhat experimental. | |
| * Support for numbers with suffixes. | |
| * Added support for breaking to the end of repeat loops. | |
| * Added support for parallel instruction syntax (DOUBLEBAR_PARALLEL). | |
| * New .elseif pseudo-op added. | |
| * New --fatal-warnings option. | |
| * picoJava architecture support added. | |
| * Motorola MCore 210 processor support added. | |
| * A new pseudo-op .intel_syntax has been implemented to allow gas to parse i386 | |
| assembly programs with intel syntax. | |
| * New pseudo-ops .func,.endfunc to aid in debugging user-written assembler code. | |
| * Added -gdwarf2 option to generate DWARF 2 debugging information. | |
| * Full 16-bit mode support for i386. | |
| * Greatly improved instruction operand checking for i386. This change will | |
| produce errors or warnings on incorrect assembly code that previous versions | |
| of gas accepted. If you get unexpected messages from code that worked with | |
| older versions of gas, please double check the code before reporting a bug. | |
| * Weak symbol support added for COFF targets. | |
| * Mitsubishi D30V support added. | |
| * Texas Instruments c80 (tms320c80) support added. | |
| * i960 ELF support added. | |
| * ARM ELF support added. | |
| Changes in 2.9: | |
| * Texas Instruments c30 (tms320c30) support added. | |
| * The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs | |
| and gcc 2.8. The new --traditional-format option disables this optimization. | |
| * Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information. | |
| * The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a | |
| listing. | |
| * Added -MD option to print dependencies. | |
| Changes in 2.8: | |
| * BeOS support added. | |
| * MIPS16 support added. | |
| * Motorola ColdFire 5200 support added (configure for m68k and use -m5200). | |
| * Alpha/VMS support added. | |
| * m68k options --base-size-default-16, --base-size-default-32, | |
| --disp-size-default-16, and --disp-size-default-32 added. | |
| * The alignment directives now take an optional third argument, which is the | |
| maximum number of bytes to skip. If doing the alignment would require | |
| skipping more than the given number of bytes, the alignment is not done at | |
| all. | |
| * The ELF assembler has a new pseudo-op, .symver, used for symbol versioning. | |
| * The -a option takes a new suboption, c (e.g., -alc), to skip false | |
| conditionals in listings. | |
| * Added new pseudo-op, .equiv; it's like .equ, except that it is an error if | |
| the symbol is already defined. | |
| Changes in 2.7: | |
| * The PowerPC assembler now allows the use of symbolic register names (r0, | |
| etc.) if -mregnames is used. Symbolic names preceded by a '%' (%r0, etc.) | |
| can be used any time. PowerPC 860 move to/from SPR instructions have been | |
| added. | |
| * Alpha Linux (ELF) support added. | |
| * PowerPC ELF support added. | |
| * m68k Linux (ELF) support added. | |
| * i960 Hx/Jx support added. | |
| * i386/PowerPC gnu-win32 support added. | |
| * SCO ELF support added. For OpenServer 5 targets (i386-unknown-sco3.2v5) the | |
| default is to build COFF-only support. To get a set of tools that generate | |
| ELF (they'll understand both COFF and ELF), you must configure with | |
| target=i386-unknown-sco3.2v5elf. | |
| * m88k-motorola-sysv3* support added. | |
| Changes in 2.6: | |
| * Gas now directly supports macros, without requiring GASP. | |
| * Gas now has an MRI assembler compatibility mode. Use -M or --mri to select | |
| MRI mode. The pseudo-op ``.mri 1'' will switch into the MRI mode until the | |
| ``.mri 0'' is seen; this can be convenient for inline assembler code. | |
| * Added --defsym SYM=VALUE option. | |
| * Added -mips4 support to MIPS assembler. | |
| * Added PIC support to Solaris and SPARC SunOS 4 assembler. | |
| Changes in 2.4: | |
| * Converted this directory to use an autoconf-generated configure script. | |
| * ARM support, from Richard Earnshaw. | |
| * Updated VMS support, from Pat Rankin, including considerably improved | |
| debugging support. | |
| * Support for the control registers in the 68060. | |
| * Handles (ignores) a new directive ".this_GCC_requires_the_GNU_assembler", to | |
| provide for possible future gcc changes, for targets where gas provides some | |
| features not available in the native assembler. If the native assembler is | |
| used, it should become obvious pretty quickly what the problem is. | |
| * Usage message is available with "--help". | |
| * The GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp) is included. (Actually, it was in 2.3 | |
| also, but didn't get into the NEWS file.) | |
| * Weak symbol support for a.out. | |
| * A bug in the listing code which could cause an infinite loop has been fixed. | |
| Bugs in listings when generating a COFF object file have also been fixed. | |
| * Initial i386-svr4 PIC implementation from Eric Youngdale, based on code by | |
| Paul Kranenburg. | |
| * Improved Alpha support. Immediate constants can have a much larger range | |
| now. Support for the 21164 has been contributed by Digital. | |
| * Updated ns32k (pc532-mach, netbsd532) support from Ian Dall. | |
| Changes in 2.3: | |
| * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie and Ken Raeburn. | |
| * RS/6000 and PowerPC support by Ian Taylor. | |
| * VMS command scripts (make-gas.com, config-gas.com) have been worked on a bit, | |
| based on mail received from various people. The `-h#' option should work | |
| again too. | |
| * HP-PA work, by Jeff Law. Note, for the PA, gas-2.3 has been designed to work | |
| with gdb-4.12 and gcc-2.6. As gcc-2.6 has not been released yet, a special | |
| version of gcc-2.5.8 has been patched to work with gas-2.3. You can retrieve | |
| this special version of gcc-2.5.8 via anonymous ftp from jaguar.cs.utah.edu | |
| in the "dist" directory. | |
| * Vax support in gas fixed for BSD, so it builds and seems to run a couple | |
| simple tests okay. I haven't put it through extensive testing. (GNU make is | |
| currently required for BSD 4.3 builds.) | |
| * Support for the DEC Alpha, running OSF/1 (ECOFF format). The gas support is | |
| based on code donated by CMU, which used an a.out-based format. I'm afraid | |
| the alpha-a.out support is pretty badly mangled, and much of it removed; | |
| making it work will require rewriting it as BFD support for the format anyways. | |
| * Irix 5 support. | |
| * The test suites have been fixed up a bit, so that they should work with a | |
| couple different versions of expect and dejagnu. | |
| * Symbols' values are now handled internally as expressions, permitting more | |
| flexibility in evaluating them in some cases. Some details of relocation | |
| handling have also changed, and simple constant pool management has been | |
| added, to make the Alpha port easier. | |
| * New option "--statistics" for printing out program run times. This is | |
| intended to be used with the gcc "-Q" option, which prints out times spent in | |
| various phases of compilation. (You should be able to get all of them | |
| printed out with "gcc -Q -Wa,--statistics", I think.) | |
| Changes in 2.2: | |
| * RS/6000 AIX and MIPS SGI Irix 5 support has been added. | |
| * Configurations that are still in development (and therefore are convenient to | |
| have listed in configure.in) still get rejected without a minor change to | |
| gas/Makefile.in, so people not doing development work shouldn't get the | |
| impression that support for such configurations is actually believed to be | |
| reliable. | |
| * The program name (usually "as") is printed when a fatal error message is | |
| displayed. This should prevent some confusion about the source of occasional | |
| messages about "internal errors". | |
| * ELF support is falling into place. Support for the 386 should be working. | |
| Support for SPARC Solaris is in. HPPA support from Utah is being integrated. | |
| * Symbol values are maintained as expressions instead of being immediately | |
| boiled down to add-symbol, sub-symbol, and constant. This permits slightly | |
| more complex calculations involving symbols whose values are not alreadey | |
| known. | |
| * DBX-style debugging info ("stabs") is now supported for COFF formats. | |
| If any stabs directives are seen in the source, GAS will create two new | |
| sections: a ".stab" and a ".stabstr" section. The format of the .stab | |
| section is nearly identical to the a.out symbol format, and .stabstr is | |
| its string table. For this to be useful, you must have configured GCC | |
| to generate stabs (by defining DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO), and must have a GDB | |
| that can use the stab sections (4.11 or later). | |
| * LynxOS, on i386 and m68k platforms, is now supported. SPARC LynxOS | |
| support is in progress. | |
| Changes in 2.1: | |
| * Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have been | |
| incorporated, but not well tested yet. | |
| * Altered the opcode table split for m68k; it should require less VM to compile | |
| with gcc now. | |
| * Some minor adjustments to add (Convergent Technologies') Miniframe support, | |
| suggested by Ronald Cole. | |
| * HPPA support (running OSF only, not HPUX) has been contributed by Utah. This | |
| includes improved ELF support, which I've started adapting for SPARC Solaris | |
| 2.x. Integration isn't completely, so it probably won't work. | |
| * HP9000/300 support, donated by HP, has been merged in. | |
| * Ian Taylor has finished the MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Irix) support. | |
| * Better error messages for unsupported configurations (e.g., hppa-hpux). | |
| * Test suite framework is starting to become reasonable. | |
| Changes in 2.0: | |
| * Mostly bug fixes. | |
| * Some more merging of BFD and ELF code, but ELF still doesn't work. | |
| Changes in 1.94: | |
| * BFD merge is partly done. Adventurous souls may try giving configure the | |
| "--with-bfd-assembler" option. Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out | |
| format accepts it; SPARC CPU accepts it. It's the default only for OS "elf" | |
| or "solaris". (ELF isn't really supported yet. It needs work. I've got | |
| some code from Utah for HP-PA ELF, and from DG for m88k ELF, but they're not | |
| fully merged yet.) | |
| * The 68K opcode table has been split in half. It should now compile under gcc | |
| without consuming ridiculous amounts of memory. | |
| * A couple data structures have been reduced in size. This should result in | |
| saving a little bit of space at runtime. | |
| * Support for MIPS, from OSF and Ralph Campbell, has been merged in. The OSF | |
| code provided ROSE format support, which I haven't merged in yet. (I can | |
| make it available, if anyone wants to try it out.) Ralph's code, for BSD | |
| 4.4, supports a.out format. We don't have ECOFF support in just yet; it's | |
| coming. | |
| * Support for the Hitachi H8/500 has been added. | |
| * VMS host and target support should be working now, thanks chiefly to Eric | |
| Youngdale. | |
| Changes in 1.93.01: | |
| * For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851. | |
| * For i386, .align is now power-of-two; was number-of-bytes. | |
| * For m68k, "%" is now accepted before register names. For COFF format, which | |
| doesn't use underscore prefixes for C labels, it is required, so variable "a0" | |
| can be distinguished from the register. | |
| * Last public release was 1.38. Lots of configuration changes since then, lots | |
| of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed. | |
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