I renamed the release tag to hjl/linux/release/2.24.51.0.1 H.J. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:25 AM, H.J. Lu <hongjiu.lu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It is also available as linux/release/2.24.51.0.1 tag at > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=summary > > > H.J. > --- > This is the beta release of binutils 2.24.51.0.1 for Linux, which is > based on binutils 2013 1106 master branch 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 2.23.52.0.2 release, when creating executables, BFD > linker will issue an error for undefined weak reference which is > defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED. Previously BFD linker > will silently include the shared library from DT_NEEDED. > > Starting from the 2.21.51.0.3 release, you must remove .ctors/.dtors > section sentinels when building glibc or other C run-time libraries. > Otherwise, you will run into: > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12343 > > Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, BFD linker has the working LTO > plugin support. It can be used with GCC 4.5 and above. For GCC 4.5, you > need to configure GCC with --enable-gold to enable LTO plugin support. > > Starting from the 2.21.51.0.2 release, binutils fully supports compressed > debug sections. However, compressed debug section isn't turned on by > default in assembler. I am planning to turn it on for x86 assembler in > the future release, which may lead to the Linux kernel bug messages like > > WARNING: lib/ts_kmp.o (.zdebug_aranges): unexpected non-allocatable section. > > But the resulting kernel works fine. > > Starting from the 2.20.51.0.4 release, no diffs against the previous > release will be provided. > > You can enable both gold and bfd ld with --enable-gold=both. Gold will > be installed as ld.gold and bfd ld will be installed as ld.bfd. By > default, ld.bfd will be installed as ld. You can use the configure > option, --enable-gold=both/gold to choose gold as the default linker, > ld. IA-32 binary and X64_64 binary tar balls are configured with > --enable-gold=both/ld --enable-plugins --enable-threads. > > 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 2.24.51.0.1 to > hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx > > and > > http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/ > > Changes from binutils 2.23.52.0.2: > > 1. Update from binutils 2013 1106. > 2. Add Intel AVX-512 new instruction support. > 3. Add Intel MPX new instruction support. > 4. Update ld to support x86-64 large PIC model with TLS GD and LD sequences. > 5. Fix ld to properly handle R_X86_64_DTPOFF64. PR 15685. > 6. Fix x86 assembler to properly check 64-bit register. > 7. Update x86 assembler not to align text/data/bss sections for ELF. > 8. Fix x86 assembler to properly support cvttps2pi. PR 13572. > 9. Fix ld to generate warning sections in glibc. PR 15762. > 10. Avoid corrupted binary generated by objcopy/strip. PR 16056. > 11. Improve ld hash. PR 15657. > 12. Fix objdump on /proc/kcore. PR 15818. > 13. Improve DWARF support. > 14. Improve addr2line. PR 15994. > 15. Improve readelf. PR 15745. > 16. Improve gold. > 17. Improve nacl support. > 18. Improve aarch64 support. > 19. Improve arm support. > 20. Improve cris support. > 21. Improve hppa support. > 22. Improve m32c support. > 23. Improve m68k support. > 24. Improve mips support. > 25. Improve msp430 support. > 26. Improve nios2 support. > 27. Improve ppc support. > 28. Improve rl78 support. > 29. Improve rx support. > 30. Improve rs6000 support. > 31. Improve s390 support. > 32. Improve sparc support. > 33. Improve tile support. > 34. Improve vax support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.52.0.1: > > 1. Update from binutils 2013 0426. > 2. Add x32 support to embedded x86_64 ELF target. > 3. Fix an x86 IFUNC linker regression. PR 15371. > 4. Fix an LTO linker weak definition bug. PR 15323. > 5. Remove stale dynamic table entries for symbols optimized out by LTO. > PR 15270. > 6. Revert the fix for PR 15149. When creating executables, BFD linker > won't issue an error for undefined weak reference which is defined in > 7 shared library from DT_NEEDED. > 8. Ignore weak reference which is is defined in a shared library from > DT_NEEDED. This may change the behavior of resulting binaries with > undefined weak reference. List libraries needed on command-line as work > around. PR 12549. > 9. Fix a MIPS ELF linker crash. PR 15382. > 10. Align LMA per VMA alignment only if needed. PR 15222. > 11. Fix a BFD decompress memory leak. PR 15356. > 12. Properly check SIB byte in x86 disassembler. > 13, Fix invalid memory access in readelf. PR 15191. > 14, Fix invalid memory access in DWARF dumper. PRs 15206/15202/15201. > 15. Improve gold. > 16. Improve aarch64 support. > 17. Improve arm support. > 18. Improve avr support. > 19. Improve h8300 support. > 20. Improve mips support. > 21. Improve nios2 support. > 22. Improve ppc support. > 23. Improve rl78 support. > 24. Improve sh support. > 25. Improve sparc support. > 26. Improve tic6x support. > 27. Improve v850 support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.9: > > 1. Update from binutils 2013 0226. > 2. Add Intel SAMP new instruction support. > 3. Allow dynamic R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64 > relocations agaist TLS symbols. > 4. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only for definition. PR 15167. > 5. Fix BFD linker to set STB_GNU_UNIQUE only if symbol is defined in > regular object. PR 15107. > 6. Don't add DT_NEEDED for references from the LTO IR input. PR 15146. > 7. When creating executables, BFD linker will issue an error for undefined > weak reference which is defined in a shared library from DT_NEEDED. > PR 15149. > 8. Also trace symbol from the LTO IR input. PR 15141. > 9. Support stripping LTO IR sections. PR 15033. > 10. Don't allow a nested archive pointing to itself and don't generate > bad archive. PR 15140. > 11. Fix objcopy segfault on non-ELF input. PR 14873. > 12. Update DWARF dump support. > 13. Improve gold. > 14. Add nios2 support. > 15. Improve mach support. > 16. Improve aarch64 support. > 17. Improve arm support. > 18. Improve avr support. > 19. Improve h8300 support. > 20. Improve meta support. > 21. Improve mips support. > 22. Improve ppc support. > 23. Improve rl78 support. > 24. Improve sparc support. > 25. Improve v850 support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.8: > > 1. Update from binutils 2013 0118. > 2. Support R_386_SIZE32, R_X86_64_SIZE32 and R_X86_64_SIZE64 > relocations. > 3. Fix x86 assembler for "xtrn@got -1". PR 15019. > 4. Don't generate old dtags with --enable-new-dtags. > 5. Add Meta support. > 6. Improve gold. > 7. Improve aarch64 support. > 8. Improve arm support. > 9. Improve cr16 support. > 10. Improve mips support. > 11. Improve ppc support. > 12. Improve v850 support. > 13. Improve xgate support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.7: > > 1. Properly adjust h->plt.refcount. PR 14980. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.6: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 1218. > 2. Add missing R_*_IRELATIVE relocations. PR 14968. > 3. Remove unnecessary R_*_NONE relocations. PR 14956. > 4. Fix ar/ranlib on 32-bit filesystems. PR 14933. > 5. Fix a "Not enough room for program headers" linker bug. PR 14926. > 6. Support self-assignment in a linker script to convert symbols to > absolute. PR 14962. > 7. Support --copy-dt-needed-entries when creating DSO. PR 14915. > 8. Improve linker plugin DSO error handling. PR 14904. > 9. Issue warning for plugin dummy. PR 12760. > 10. Add -fuse-ld=bfd|gold support to ld and gold. > 11. Fix gold configure. PR 14897. > 12. Correct gas dependency. PR 14899. > 13. Add rdos support. > 14. Improve gold. > 15. Improve nacl support. > 16. Improve aarch64 support. > 17. Improve arm support. > 18. Improve microblaze support. > 19. Improve mips support. > 20. Improve ppc support. > 21. Improve tile support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.5: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 1123. > 2. Fix 64-bit jecxz encoding regression in x86 assembler. PR 14859. > 3. Revert an accidental linker change. PR 14862. > 4. Fix x32 TLS LD to LE optimization in gold. PR 14858. > 5. Add "-z global" option to set DF_1_GLOBAL to ld. > 6. Improve ld plugin error handling. > 7. Port ld lib32 arrangement from Debian. > 8. Properly set the output maxpagesize when rewriting program header. > PR 14493. > 9. Add additional DF_1_XXX support to readelf. > 10. Improve nacl support with separate code segments. > 11. Improve macos support. > 12. Improve arm support. > 13. Improve microblaze support. > 14. Improve mips support. > 15. Improve ppc support. > 16. Improve sparc support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.4: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 1110. > 2. Support new Linux NOTE sections. > 3. Add -z stacksize=SIZE option to ld to set size of stack segment. > 4. Fix a BFD IOVEC close bug. PR 14813. > 5. Fix a BFD IOVEC on archive bug. PR 14567. > 6. Fix archive support for non-ELF targets. PR 14481. > 7. Improve gold. > 8. Improve COFF support. > 9. Improve arm support. > 10. Improve microblaze support. > 11. Improve mips support. > 12. Improve ppc support. > 13. Improve rx support. > 14. Improve s390 support. > 15. Improve v850 support. > 16. Improve xgate support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.3: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 1026. > 2. Fix an LTO linker bug. PR 14747. > 3. Add cx16 arch feature to x86 assembler. > 4. Add -march=bdver3 option to x86 assembler. > 5. Properly handle ignored REX prefix with fwait in x86 disassembler. > 6. Fix x32 register names in objdump DWARF output. > 7. Add NT_SIGINFO/NT_FILE support to readelf. > 8. Add linker --ignore-unresolved-symbol option from NetBSD. > 9. Treat .gdb_index section as debug section. PR 14662. > 10. Add --debug-dump=addr, --debug_dump=cu_index options to readelf and > objdump. > 11. Add dwp, DWARF packaging utility. > 12. Add compressed debug section support to Windows. PR 14067. > 13. Improve gold. > 14. Improve aarch64 support. > 15. Improve arm support. > 16. Improve hppa support. > 17. Improve mips support. > 18. Improve s390 support. > 19. Improve tile support. > 20. Improve v850 support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.2: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 0918. > 2. Properly handle versioned STB_SECONDARY symbols. > 3. Fix wrong symbol type with common symbol and weak function. PR 14591. > 4. Ignore discarded sections when converting mov to lea. > 5. Improve gold. > 6. Improve avr support. > 7. Improve aarch64 support. > 8. Improve moxie support. > 9. Improve ppc support. > 10. Improve tile support. > > Changes from binutils 2.23.51.0.1: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 0908. > 2. Fix STB_SECONDARY support: > a. Generate STB_SECONDARY symbols in DSO by default. > b. Properly handle STB_SECONDAY symbols when linking with archive. > c. Don't allow .weak directive to override .secondary directive. > 3. Optimize i386/x86-64 linker to convert GOT load (MOV) to LEA. > 4. Clarify x86 assembler error messages. PR 14457. > 5. Improve NOP/prefetch support in x86 disassembler. > 6. Improve Intel syntax support in x86 assembler. > 7. Add -march={btver1, btver2} options to x86 assembler. > 8. Fix binutils build with --enable-shared. PR 4970. > 9. Also provide __executable_start for PIE. PR 14525. > 10. Use xmalloc to allocate memory for argument list file. PR 14526. > 11. Add Intel Itanium Series 9500 support to assembler/diassembler. > 12. Ignore section symbols without a BFD section when outputing symbols > and check bad section index. PR 14493. > 13. Improve archive reader. PR 14475. > 14. Support DW_OP_GNU_const_index reader. > 15. Improve handling of imput files with empty ELF group sections. > PR 14444. > 16. Fix IFUNC support in s390 linker. > 17. Improve gold. > 18. Add aarch64 support. > 19. Improve arm support. > 20. Improve mips support. > 21. Improve mmix support. > 22. Improve moxie support. > 23. Improve ppc support. > 24. Improve s390 support. > 25. Improve tile support. > > Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.4: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 0806. > 2. Add Intel ADX, RDSEED and PRFCHW new instruction support. > 3. Support 'rep bsf', 'rep bsr', and 'rep ret' syntax in x86 assembler. > 4. Mark 256-bit vmovntdqa as AVX2 instruction for x86 assembler. > 5. Improve x86 assembler error handling. > 6. Improve the repeat directive support in assembler. PR 14201. > 7. Improve x86-64 disassembler on superfluous prefixes. > 8. Fix x86 disassembler crash on bad XOP instructions. PR 14355. > 9. Support STB_SECONDARY: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups#!forum/generic-abi > > 10. Added SORT_NONE to the linker script language to disable section > sorting and properly handle .init/.fini sections. PR 14156. > 11. Fix a weak alias linker bug. PR 14323. > 12. Fix the NULL GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14207. > 13. Fix the bad GNU_RELRO segment linker bug. PR 14215. > 14. Add linker support of __ehdr_start symbol for the ELF file header. > 15. Add IFUNC support to s390 linker. > 16. Fix ar for >4GB member. PR 14302. > 17. Fix objcopy --compress-debug-sections on empty debug section. PR > 14319. > 18. Fix readelf/objdup to display null bytes in DWARF debug info. PR > 14420. > 19. Improve gold. > 20. Improve arm support. > 21. Improve avr support. > 22. Improve cris support. > 23. Improve m68k support. > 24. Improve mips support. > 25. Improve ppc support. > 26. Improve vax support. > 27. Improve xgate support. > > Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.3: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 0604. > 2. Check addend overflow for R_X86_64_RELATIVE64. > 3. Fix ar/nm/ranlib with --plugin. > 4. Create .eh_frame_hdr section only if needed. PR 13909. > 5. Properly create .eh_frame section for PLT. PR 14105. > 6. Fix a linker crash. PR 14170. > 7. Fix readelf to properly display addend. > 8. Don't make _DYNAMIC/_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_/_PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ > symbols absolute for x86 and ppc. > 9. Properly handle shared libraries with zero dynamic symbols. PRs > 7023/13962. > 10. Update readelf/assembler to support multibyte characters in symbol > names. > 11. Add --strip-dwo/--extract-dwo options to objcopy/strip. > 12. Add R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 support to gold. > 13. Improve gold. > 14. Improve NACL support. > 15. Improve alpha support. > 16. Improve avr support. > 17. Improve m68k support. > 18. Improve mips support. > 19. Improve ppc support. > 20. Improve vax support. > > Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.2: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 0507. > 2. Fix Linux kernel build by reverting the PR 13621 fix. PR 14052. > 3. Add support for x86_64-*-linux-gnux32 target. > 4. Improve x86 assembler. > 5. Improve DWARF support. > 6. Improve gold. > 7. Improve rx support. > 8. Improve sparc support. > 9. Add xgate support. > > Changes from binutils 2.22.52.0.1: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 0424. > 2. Support Intel HLE and RTM extension. > 3. Add NACL support. > 4. Fix -Bsymbolic with protected function pointer. PR 13880. > 5. Fix an IFUNC regression. PR 13817. > 6. Fix x86 NOP fill regression. PR 13675. > 7. Fix a linker regression. PR 13991. > 8. Fix dangling global hidden symbol in symtab. PR 13621. > 9. Fix objcopy, strip and ld for --emit-relocs. PR 13947. > 10. Improve gold. > 11. Improve mach support. > 12. Improve vms support. > 13. Improve windows support. > 14. Improve arm support. > 15. Improve avr support. > 16. Improve mips support. > 17. Improve ppc support. > 18. Improve rx support. > 19. Improve s390 support. > 20. Improve sh support. > 21. Improve sparc support. > 22. Improve tile support. > > Changes from binutils 2.22.51.0.1: > > 1. Update from binutils 2012 0131. > 2. Add x32 support to gold. > 3. Support linker arch-depedent fill. PR 13616. > 4. Add i386 NACL support to x86 assembler. > 5. Add fake zero displacement for .d8 and .d32 suffixes to x86 assembler. > 6. Add vmfunc support to x86 assembler/disassembler. > 7. Support >2GB archive member. PR 13534. > 8. Support R_X86_64_PC32 relocation for PIC on x32. PR 13581. > 9. Fix LTO linker with --start-group and archive. PR 12758. > 10. Fix linker with --build-id. PR 12451. > 11. Improve linker dead code dependency removal on DSO. PR 12772. > 12. Improve demangler. > 13. Fix elf64-x86-64.c build with GCC 4.7. > 14. Avoid linker -z text crash. PR 13468. > 15. Avoid readelf crash. PR 13622. > 16. Avoid nm crash on --size-sort --no-sort. PR 13593. > 17. Fix linker COFF SECREL32 relocation support. PR 13491. > 18. Improve gold. > 19. Improve mach support. > 20. Improve arm support. > 21. Improve avr support. > 22. Improve hppa support. > 23. Improve m68k support. > 24. Improve mips support. > 25. Improve ppc support. > 26. Improve rl78 support. > 27. Improve rx support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.2: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 1118. > 2. Fix ar --plugin on archive with mixed IR/non-IR objects. PR 13298. > 3. Preserve the maximum alignment and size for common symbols. PR 13250. > 4. Fix LTO linker with -as-needed. PR 13287. > 5. Fix --plugin support on thin archive. PR 13257. > 6. Fix LTO linker on thin archive. PR 13183. > 7. Fix --plugin slim object support on archive. PR 13278. > 8. Support LDPR_PREVAILING_DEF_IRONLY_EXP in linker plugin. PR 13229. > 9. Don't make make IR symbols dynamic. PR 13244. > 10. Fix LTO linker with --as-needed. PR 13201. > 11. Properly handle 2 IR symbols with the same comdat key. PR 13066. > 12. Keep .debug_types sections with linker garbage collection. PR 13233. > 13. Fix -ffunction-sections -Wl,--gc-sections failure with symbol > versioning. PR 13195. > 14. Improve linker garbage collection support. PR 13177. > 15. Remove symbols hidden by version scripts with --gc-sections. PR 12975. > 16. Remove unnecessary GOT relocation created for IFUNC. PR 13178. > 17. Move IRELATIVE relocations to the end. PR 13302. > 18. Avoid readelf core dump. PR 13219. > 19. Check zero address size when dumping DWARF sections. PR 13196. > 20. Remove the group section if all members are removed. PR 13180. > 21. Support R_X86_64_64 and R_X86_64_RELATIVE64 relocations for x32. > PR 13082. > 22. Add Adapteva Epiphany support. > 23. Add Renesas RL78 support. > 24. Improve gold. > 25. Improve mach-o support. > 26. Improve alpha support. > 27. Improve arm support. > 28. Improve hppa support. > 29. Improve mips support. > 30. Improve ppc support. > 31. Improve rx support. > 32. Improve sparc support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.53.0.1: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0804. > 2. Add Intel K1OM support. > 3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocation for x32 and check x32 relocation overflow. > PR ld/13048. > 4. Support direct call in x86-64 assembly code. PR gas/13046. > 5. Add ia32 Google Native Client support. > 6. Add .debug_macro section support. > 7. Improve gold. > 8. Improve VMS support. > 9. Improve arm support. > 10. Improve hppa support. > 11. Improve mips support. > 12. Improve mmix support. > 13. Improve ppc support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.2: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0716. > 2. Fix LTO linker bugs. PRs 12982/12942. > 3. Fix rorx support in x86 assembler/disassembler for AVX Programming > Reference (June, 2011). > 4. Fix an x86-64 ELFOSABI linker regression. > 5. Update ELFOSABI_GNU support. PR 12913. > 6. Fix a linker regression with prelink support. PR 12921. > 7. Add unwind info to x86 PLT section. PR 12570. > 8. Support x32 core files. > 9. Support native x32 linker. > 10. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851. > 11. Avoid linker crash on bad input. PR 12887. > 12. Add section flags in linker script. > 13. Improve elf linker -z option support. > 14. Fix nm on compressed debug sections. PR 12983. > 15. Fix an ar bug. PR 12558. > 16. Fix an ia64 linker regression. PR 12978. > 17. Improve gold. > 18. Improve VMS support. > 19. Add TILE-Gx/TILEPro support. > 20. Improve alpha support. > 21. Improve avr support. > 22. Improve mips support. > 23. Improve arm support. > 24. Improve ppc support. > 25. Improve sh support. > 26. Improve TIC6X support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.52.0.1: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0610. > 2. Support AVX Programming Reference (June, 2011) > 3. Allow R_X86_64_64 relocations in SEC_DEBUGGING sections when building > x32 shared libraries. Used to build kernel x32 vDSO. > 4. Fix linker --gc-sections on note sections. PR 12851. > 5. Update readelf to handle binaries containing corrupt version > information. PR 12855. > 6. Improve gold. > 7. Improve VMS support. > 8. Improve mips support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.9: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0608. > 2. Fix an x86 linker regression. PRs 12833/12837/12859. > 3. Fix an x86-64 large model TLS linker bug. PR 12809. > 4. Fix LTO bugs. PRs 12758/12760. > 5. Add a new linker switch, -plugin-save-temps. > 6. Fix an linker bug for warning on common symbol in archive. > 7. Fix warning support when building shared library. PR 12761. > 8. Reduce linker memory usage when linking many small object files. > PR 12682. > 9. Fix a thin archive bug. PR 12710. > 10. Fix a TLS linker bug. PR 12763. > 11. Improve gold. > 12. Improve DWARF dump support. > 13. Improve XCOFF support. > 14. Improve arm support. > 15. Improve cris support. > 16. Improve ia64 ILP32 support. > 17. Improve mips support. > 18. Improve ppc support. > 19. Improve rx support. > 20. Improve s390 support. > 21. Improve tic30 support. > 22. Improve tic6x support. > 23. Improve v850 support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.8: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0507. > 2. Improve LTO bfd linker. PRs 12365/12696/12672 > 3. Fix a linker regression with constructor attribute in C++. PR 12730. > 4. Warn relocation in readonly section when creating a shared object. > 5. Remove empty output sections. PR 12718. > 6. Remove DT_TEXTREL with local IFUNC symbols. PR 12694. > 7. Properly set ELFOSABI_LINUX for STB_GNU_UNIQUE. PR 10549. > 8. Fix objcopy on unusual input. PR 12632. > 9. Fix an ar regression. PR 12720. > 10 Avoid linker crash on bad linker input. > 11. Fix a linker script regression. PR 12726. > 12. Support new GNU DWARF extensions. > 13. Initial support for SystemTap note sections. > 14. Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump. > 15. Disable 3dnow and 3dnowa for bdver1 in x86 assembler. > 16. Improve gold. > 17. Improve VMS support. > 18. Improve arm support. > 19. Improve mips support. > 20. Improve ppc support. > 21. Improve s390 support. > 22. Improve tic6x support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.7: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0408. > 2. Fix x32 TLS linker bug. > 3. Enable .quad directive in x32 assembler. > 4. Fix an assembler regression. PRs 12569/12589. > 5. Add --size-check= assembler option to issue a warning, instead of an > error, on bad ELF .size directive. > 6. Fix an ia32 linker bug with TLS/PIE. PR 12654. > 7. Fix Intel L1OM linker library search path. > 8. Fix a linker buffer overflow on malformed inputs. PR 12613. > 9. Check corrupted symtab in nm/readelf. PR 12639. > 10. Avoid objcopy crash on archive with unknown objects. PR 12632. > 11. Fix "ar -t". PR 12590. > 12. Fix many memory leaks. > 13. Improve DWARF support. > 14. Improve gold. > 15. Improve VMS support. > 16. Improve Windows support. > 17. Improve alpha support. > 18. Improve arm support. > 19. Improve avr support. > 20. Improve ppc support. > 21. Improve sparc support. > 22. Improve tic6x support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.6: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0306. > 2. Supprt x32 TLS IE->LE transition. > 3. Change x32 library directory from /lib32 to /libx32. > 4. Improve LTO linker support. Fix PRs 12439/12314/12248/12430. > 5. Improve linker plugin support. > 6. Fix an ar bug. PR 12513. > 7. Properly generate nops for ia32. PR 6957. > 8. Improve readelf DT_GNU_HASH support. PR 12523. > 9. Improve readelf on invalid input. PR 12467. > 10. Update ELF assembler to issue an error on invalid .size directive. > PR 12519, > 11. Properly handle PT_DYNAMIC segment with zero size sections. PR 12516. > 12. Add a new linker option, --verbose=2, to report plugin symbol > status. > 13. Properly handle entry symbols in linker LTO support. PR 12507. > 14. Improve gold. > 15. Improve arm support. > 16. Improve bfin support. > 17. Improve mips support. > 18. Improve ppc support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.5: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0118. > 2. Fix x32 (ILP32) support. Renamed assembler option to --x32. It > can create working static and dynamic x32 executables. > 3. Add BMI and TBM new instruction support. > 4. Fix x86 disassembler to properly display sign-extended byte. > 5. Improve IFUNC linker support. PRs 12366/12371. > 6. Fix readelf bug on archive. PR 12408. > 7. Fix a assembler when compressing empty debug sections. PR 12409. > 8. Fix a warning symbol linker bug. PR 12339. > 9. Fix a duplicated assert message linker bug. PR 12380. > 10. Fix plugin linker build. PR 12391. > 11. Fix a plugin linker crash. PR 12364. > 12. Improve plugin linker. > 13. Improve gold. > 14. Improve arm support. > 15. Improve mips support. > 16. Improve rx support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.4: > > 1. Update from binutils 2011 0104. > 2. Add ILP32 support: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ilp32/abi.pdf > > to Linux/x86-64. > 3. Prevent the Linux x86-64 kernel build failure and remove > __ld_compatibility support. PR 12356. > 4. Improve gold. > 5. Improve Windows support. > 6. Improve hppa support. > 7. Improve mips support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.3: > > 1. Update from binutils 2010 1217. > 2. Fix the Linux relocatable kernel build. PR 12327. > 3. Improve mips support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.2: > > 1. Update from binutils 2010 1215. > 2. Add BFD linker support for placing input .ctors/.dtors sections in > output .init_array/.fini_array section. Add SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY. The > benefits are > a. Avoid output .ctors/.dtors section in executables and shared > libraries. > b. Allow mixing input .ctors/.dtors sections with input > .init_array/.fini_array sectiobs. GCC PR 46770. > 3. Add BFD linker support for "ld -r" on mixed IR/non-IR objects. Add > the new ELF section type SHT_GNU_OBJECT_ONLY (0x6ffffff8). See > > http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12291 > > 4. Update BFD linker to accept -flto and -flto-partition= for GCC LTO > option compatibility. > 5. Fix BFD linker to avoid touching uncompressed section content when > relocating DWARF debug sections for errror reporting. > 6. Mark .gnu.lto_* sections with SHF_EXCLUDE. > 7. Add --target option to ar. > 8. Improve gold. > 9. Improve AIX support. > 10. Improve Windows support. > 11. Improve mips support. > > Changes from binutils 2.21.51.0.1: > > 1. Update from binutils 2010 1206. > 2. Fix BFD and GOLD linker for compressed debug section support. > 3. Fix BFD linker plugin support. PR ld/12246, ld/12247, ld/12248, > ld/12277, ld/12288 and ld/12289. > 4. Update BFD linker to group .text.exit, text.startup and .text.hot > sections. > 5. Fix linker for W_EH_PE_datarel handling. PR ld/12253. > 6. Fix array access bug in readelf/elfedit. PR binutils/11742 and > binutils/12235. > 7. Support dumping GDB .gdb_index section. > 8. Install plugin-api.h. > 9. Improve gold. > 10. Improve Solaris support. > 11. Improve VMS support. > 12. Improve Windows support. > 13. Improve arm support. > 14. Improve bfin support. > 15. Improve mips support. > 16. Improve s390 support. > 17. Improve z80 support. > > Changes from binutils 2.20.51.0.12: > > 1. Update from binutils 2010 1110. > 2. Fix ld plugin support. PRs lto/46291 and lto/46319. > 3. Fix x86 assembler to properly fold _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ in Intel > syntax. PR 12186. > 4. Update assembler to ensure that group signature symbols have the name > of the group. > 5. Avoid unnecessary relaxation in assembler. PR 12049. > 6. Update linker NOLOAD processing. > 7. Update linker not to include archive members when symbols therein have > already been defined. PR 12001. > 8. Change objdump to display compressed section names without 'z'. > 9. Improve gold. > 10. Improve Solaris support. > 11. Improve VMS support. > 12. Improve Windows support. > 13. Improve arm support. > 14. Improve cr16 support. > 15. Improve mips support. > 16. Improve ppc support. > 17. Improve tic6x support. > > The file list: > > 1. binutils-2.24.51.0.1.tar.bz2. Source code. > > The primary sites for the beta Linux binutils are: > > 1. http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/binutils/ > > It is also available as linux/release/2.24.51.0.1 tag at > > https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=summary > > Thanks. > > > H.J. Lu > hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx > 11/08/2013 -- H.J.
