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| * Add "-x NAME" to readelf in addition to "-x NUMBER". |
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| * Add -i and -t switches to cxxfilt. -i disables the display of implementation |
| specific extra demangling information (if any) and -t disables the demangling |
| of types. |
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| * Add support for the "@<file>" syntax to the command lines of all tools, so |
| that extra switches can be read from <file>. |
| |
| * Add "-W/--dwarf" to objdump to display the contents of the DWARF |
| debug sections. |
| |
| * Add "-t/--section-details" to readelf to display section details. |
| "-N/--full-section-name" is deprecated. |
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| * powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security |
| conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all |
| code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT |
| and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt. |
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| * Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information |
| for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function. |
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| * Add "-N/--full-section-name" to readelf to display full section name. |
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| * Add "-M entry:<addr>" switch to objdump to specify a function entry address |
| when disassembling VAX binaries. |
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| * Add "--globalize-symbol <name>" and "--globalize-symbols <filename>" switches |
| to objcopy to convert local symbols into global symbols. |
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| Changes in 2.16: |
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| * Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups. |
| |
| * objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and |
| --strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard |
| matching the original --strip-symbol/--strip-symbols provided, but |
| retaining any symbols matching but needed by relocations. |
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| * readelf can now display address ranges from .debug_range sections. This |
| happens automatically when a DW_AT_range attribute is encountered. The |
| command line switch --debug-dump=Ranges (or -wR) can also be used to display |
| the contents of the .debug_range section. |
| |
| * nm and objdump now have a switch "--special-syms" to enable the displaying of |
| symbols which the target considers to be special. By default these symbols |
| are no longer displayed. Currently the only special symbols are the Mapping |
| symbols used by the ARM port to mark transitions between text and data and |
| between ARM and THUMB code. |
| |
| * dlltool has a switch "--ext-prefix-alias <prefix>" to generate additional |
| import and export symbols with <preifx> prepended to them. |
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| Changes in 2.15: |
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| * objcopy for MIPS targets now accepts "-M no-aliases" as an option to the |
| disassembler to print the "raw" mips instruction mnemonic instead of some |
| pseudo instruction name. I.E. print "daddu" or "or" instead of "move", |
| "sll" instead of "nop", etc. |
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| * objcopy and strip can now take wildcard patterns in symbol names specified on |
| the command line provided that the --wildcard switch is used to enable them. |
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| * readelf can now parse archives. |
| |
| * objdump now accepts --debugging-tags to print the debug information in a |
| format compatible with ctags tool. |
| |
| * objcopy and strip now accept --only-keep-debug to create a file containing |
| those sections that would be stripped out by --strip-debug. The idea is that |
| this can be used in conjunction with the --add-gnu-debuglink switch to create |
| a two part program distribution - one a stripped executable and the other the |
| debugging info. |
| |
| * objcopy now accepts --add-gnu-debuglink=<file> to insert a .gnu_debuglink |
| section into a (presumably stripped) executable. This allows the debug |
| information for the file to be held in a separate file. |
| |
| * BFD marks the sections .comment and .note as 'n' in the BSD/POSIX |
| single-character representation. This can be checked by running nm |
| with the -a switch. |
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| Changes in 2.14: |
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| * Added --info switch to objcopy and strip. |
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| * Support for Vitesse IQ2000 added by Red Hat. |
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| * Added 'S' encoding to strings to allow the display of 8-bit characters. |
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| * Added --prefix-symbols=<text>, --prefix-sections=<text> and |
| --prefix-alloc-sections=<text> to objcopy. |
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| * readelf can handle the extensions to the DWARF2 spec used by the Unified |
| Parallel C compiler. |
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| * BFD no longer declares a "boolean" type, to avoid clashes with other |
| headers that declare the same. Users of BFD should replace boolean, |
| false and true, with int, 0 and 1, or define their own boolean type. |
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| * Support for IP2K added by Denis Chertykov. |
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| Changes in 2.13: |
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| * Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400 |
| and FR500 included. |
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| Changes in version 2.12: |
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| * Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson. |
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| * size: Add --totals to display summary of sizes (Berkeley format only). |
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| * readelf: Add --wide option to not break section header or segment listing |
| lines to fit into 80 columns. |
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| * strings: Add --encoding to display wide character strings. By Markus Kuhn. |
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| * objcopy: Add --rename-section to change section names. |
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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. |
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| * Support for OpenRISC by Johan Rydberg. |
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| * New command line switch to objcopy --alt-machine-code which creates a binary |
| with an alternate machine code if one is defined in the architecture |
| description. Only supported for ELF targets. By Alexandre Oliva. |
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| * 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. |
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| * Support for PDP-11 by Lars Brinkhoff. |
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| Changes in binutils 2.11: |
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| * Add support for ARM v5t and v5te architectures and Intel's XScale ARM |
| extenstions. |
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| * Add --srec-len and --srec-forceS3 command line switch to objcopy. |
| By Luciano Gemme. |
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| * Support for the MIPS32, by Anders Norlander. |
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| * Support for the i860, by Jason Eckhardt. |
| |
| * Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series). |
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| Changes in binutils 2.10: |
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| * Support for 64-bit ELF on HPPA. |
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| * 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. |
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| * 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. |
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| * objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed |
| with intel syntax. |
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| * 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. |
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| * objcopy has a --redefine-sym option that lets you rename symbols. |
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| * objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified |
| sections. |
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| * dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command. |
| |
| * dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols, |
| --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options. |
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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 |
| 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 |
| the VMA of the sections. |
| |
| * Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table. |
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| Changes in binutils 2.8: |
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| * 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. |
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| * 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. |
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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 |
| file is laid out in memory. Also added binary output format to BFD to permit |
| generating plain binary files. |
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| * 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. |
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| Changes in binutils 2.5: |
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| * Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly |
| listing, for a more useful listing of relocatable files. |
| |
| * Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| ELF and COFF files. |
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| * A new program, nlmconv, has been added. It can convert object files into |
| 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 |
| '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. |
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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. |
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| * 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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