1997-09-24 19:39:15 +04:00
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1999-02-02 22:51:16 +03:00
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Changes in binutils 2.9:
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* Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32
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files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT.
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* The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than
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the VMA of the sections.
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* Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table.
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1997-09-24 19:39:15 +04:00
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Changes in binutils 2.8:
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* The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved. Use
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the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format. There are also new
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--disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler
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output.
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* Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets. For example,
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objdump -b i386-pc-linux. The triplets are not passed through config.sub,
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so they must be in canonical form.
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* Added new addr2line program. This uses the debugging information to convert
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an address into a file name and line number within a program.
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* Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy.
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* Added --weaken argument to objcopy.
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* objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries.
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* Added --adjust-vma option to objdump.
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* Added -C/--demangle option to objdump.
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* Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy.
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Changes in binutils 2.7:
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* Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure.
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* Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy.
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* Added --defined-only argument to nm.
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* Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy.
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* The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc.
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* Added --line-numbers option to nm.
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* Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump.
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* Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP.
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Changes in binutils 2.6:
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* Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy.
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* Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new
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file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit
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generating plain binary files.
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* Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump.
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* ar and ranlib now work on AIX. The tools are now built by default on AIX.
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Changes in binutils 2.5:
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* Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly
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listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files.
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* Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections.
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Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections.
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* Added --size-sort option to nm.
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* strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF
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executables.
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Changes in binutils 2.4:
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* Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and
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PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor).
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* Support for Irix 5.
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* Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked
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ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly.
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Changes in binutils 2.3:
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* A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in
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ELF and COFF files.
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* A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into
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Novell NetWare Loadable Modules.
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* The strings program has been added.
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Changes in binutils 2.2:
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* The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with
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'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for
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'cp'.
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* The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded
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(mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names. (Note: This
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may get moved to the gcc distribution.)
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* nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching
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the output from BSD nm.
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* ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives.
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* New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH.
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* Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb.
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* There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use.
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* There is the beginnings of a test suite.
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Changes in binutils 2.1:
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* There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities
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should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix. Please let us know how well this works.
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* ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD
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version), if there are any object files in the archive. So running ranlib is
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now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used). This is required
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for Posix.2 conformance.
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* The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives
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independently of the selected target format. This is to encourage people to
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switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages.
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* The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only
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and/or local symbols only. They now also support long options.
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Local variables:
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fill-column: 79
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End:
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