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authorNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2009-05-26 14:12:03 +0000
committerNick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>2009-05-26 14:12:03 +0000
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downloadbinutils-gdb-ce3c775b8fa618c3002c7017de162f51d022960d.tar.gz
* Makefile.am: Run "make dep-am".
(AM_CPPFLAGS): New. (LIBDL): New. (ALL_MACHINES): Add cpu-plugin.lo. (ALL_MACHINES_CFILES): Add cpu-plugin.c. (BFD32_BACKENDS): Add plugin.lo. (BFD32_BACKENDS_CFILES): Add plugin.c. (libbfd_la_LIBADD): Add LIBDL * archures.c (bfd_architecture): Add bfd_arch_plugin. (bfd_plugin_arch): Declare. * bfd-in.h (BFD_SUPPORTS_PLUGINS): New. * bfd.c (bfd): Add plugin_data. * config.bfd: Handle the plugin target. * configure.in: Check for --enable-plugins. (LT_INIT): Use the dlopen option. * cpu-plugin.c: New. * plugin.c: New. * plugin.h: New. * targets.c (plugin_vec): Declare. (_bfd_target_vector): Add plugin_vec. * Makefile.in: Regenerate. * bfd-in2.h: Regenerate. * configure: Regenerate. * ar.c: Include plugin.h. (main): Handle the --plugin option. * nm.c: Include plugin.h. (OPTION_PLUGIN): New. (long_options): Add plugin. (main): Handle OPTION_PLUGIN. * NEWS: Mention the new feature. * doc/binutils: Documement the new command line options. * configure.in: Check for --enable-plugins. * configure: Regenerate.
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-*- text -*-
+* The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects
+ used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats.
+
* The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format
for objcopy.