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| -rw-r--r-- | release.binutils-2.25.51.0.2 (renamed from release.binutils-2.25.51.0.1) | 103 |
1 files changed, 98 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/release.binutils-2.25.51.0.1 b/release.binutils-2.25.51.0.2 index 85e9e1cbb5b..557df2860e5 100644 --- a/release.binutils-2.25.51.0.1 +++ b/release.binutils-2.25.51.0.2 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -This is the beta release of binutils 2.25.51.0.1 for Linux, which is -based on binutils 2014 1224 master branch on sourceware.org plus +This is the beta release of binutils 2.25.51.0.2 for Linux, which is +based on binutils 2015 0515 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. @@ -40,6 +40,28 @@ 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 2.25.51.0.2 release, the x86 assembler will optimize +out relocations against defined non-weak global branch targets with +default visibility by default. This Linux kernel patch is needed to +create a working x86 Linux kernel if it hasn't been applied: + +diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +index ae6588b..b91a00c 100644 +--- a/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S ++++ b/arch/x86/kernel/head_64.S +@@ -339,8 +339,8 @@ early_idt_handlers: + i = i + 1 + .endr + +-/* This is global to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */ +-ENTRY(early_idt_handler) ++/* This is weak to keep gas from relaxing the jumps */ ++WEAK(early_idt_handler) + cld + + cmpl $2,(%rsp) # X86_TRAP_NMI +-- + Starting from the 2.18.50.0.4 release, the x86 assembler no longer accepts @@ -120,13 +142,84 @@ endif to arch/ia64/Makefile in your kernel source tree. -Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.25.51.0.1 to +Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.25.51.0.2 to hjl.tools@gmail.com and http://www.sourceware.org/bugzilla/ +Changes from binutils 2.25.51.0.1: + +1. Update from binutils 2015 0515. +2. Add support for Intel MCU psABI. +3. Add supporr for AMD znver1 processor. +4. Enable gABI compressed debug section support to as and binutils. +5. Add --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] support +to ld and gold. +6. Don't create .plt section if not needed. +7. Add branch optimization to x86 assembler. +8. Change x86 assembler to limit multi-byte nop instructions to 10 bytes. +9. Remove .note section for -march= in x86 assembler. +10. Don't change compressed input debug section names. PR binutils/18209. +11. Support copy relocation in PIE for i386. PR ld/18289. +12. Support copy relocation on protected symbols for i386 and x86-64. +PRs ld/15228/17709. +13. Don't remove _init/_fini functions with --gc-sections. PR ld/18223. +14. Don't remove .bss section with --gc-sections. PR ld/17615. +15. Don't create large padding for PT_GNU_RELRO segment. PR ld/18176. +16. Add llvm plugin support to ld. PRs ld/17878/18250. +17. Generate correct sh_info for .rel.plt/.rela.plt sections. PR ld/18169. +18. Fix PIE copy relocations with pointers on x86-64. PR ld/17827. +19. Change ld not to print newlines in INPUT statements. PRs ld/18344. +20. Support both AMD64 and Intel64 in x86-64 assembler and +disassembler. PR binutis/18386. +21. Fix x86 disassembler for rdrand/rdseed. PR binutils/17898. +22. Add -z/--decompress option to readelf. +23. Add --update-section option to objcopy. +24. Properly dump .debug_loc section. PR binutils/18374. +25. Properly dump .debug_str_offsets section. PR binutils/18218. +26. Change readelf -s --wide to issue an error. PR binutils/18101. +27. Change objcopy not to leave temporary directory in case of error. +PR binutils/17636. +28. Avoid gaps between sections and section headers when ld -s is used. +PRs ld/17773/17842. +29. Issue a warning for relocation in readonly section for -z text. +PR ld/17935. +30. Don't complain about -fPIC for undefined symbol. PR ld/17847. +31. Don't ignore undefined references produced by linker plugin. +PRs ld/12365/14272. +32. Removed undefined symbols in static executables. PR ld/4317. +33. Remove useless symbols. PRs ld/17973/17975. +34. Avoid seg fault when input relocation is incompatible with output. +PR ld/18160. +35. Fix more memory access issues. PRs ld/17512/17531. +36. Add Nuxi CloudABI support. +37. Add ft32 support. +38. Add Linux/h8300 support. +39. Improve gold support. +40. Improve COFF support. +41. Improve PE support. +42. Improve aarch64 support. +43. Improve arm support. +44. Improve avr support. +45. Improve m32c support. +46. Improve mep support. +47. Improve microblaze support. +48. Improve mips support. +49. Improve moxie support. +50. Improve msp430 support. +51. Improve nds32 support. +52. Improve pdp11 support. +53. Improve ppc support. +54. Improve rl78 support. +55. Improve rx support. +56. Improve s390 support. +57. Improve sh support. +58. Improve sh64 support. +59. Improve v850 support. +60. Improve xtensa support. + Changes from binutils 2.24.51.0.4: 1. Update from binutils 2014 1224. @@ -1002,7 +1095,7 @@ already been defined. PR 12001. 16. Improve ppc support. 17. Improve tic6x support. -It is available as hjl/linux/release/2.25.51.0.1 tag at +It is available as users/hjl/linux/release/2.25.51.0.2 tag at https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=summary @@ -1011,4 +1104,4 @@ Thanks. H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com -12/24/2014 +05/18/2015 |