1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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-*- text -*-
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2002-06-29 04:54:59 +00:00
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2003-11-14 08:21:02 +00:00
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* Limited support for Mapping Symbols as specified in the ARM ELF specification
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has been added to the arm assembler.
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* config/tc-arm.texi (struct reg_entry): Add new field 'builtin'.
(rn_table, iwmmxt_table, cp_table, cn_table, fn_table, sn_table,
dn_table, mav_mvf_table, mac_mvd_table, mav_mvfx_table,
mav_mvax_table, mav_dspc_table): Initialise new field.
(insert_reg_alias): Initialise new field.
(md_pseudo_table): Add "unreq" entry.
(s_unreq): New function: Undo the effects of a previous .req.
* doc/c-arm.texi: Document new pseudo op.
* NEWS: Mention new feature.
* testsuite/gas/arm/req.s: New test file. Check .req and .unreq psuedo ops.
* testsuite/gas/arm/req.l: Expected error output from req.s test.
* testsuite/gas/arm/copro.d: Set target architecture for objdump so that the
test will work on architectures which cannot encode higher arm architecture
types in their file headers.
* testsuite/gas/arm/arm.exp: Run new req.s test.
Skip thumb instruction test for PE targets which do not support
thumb relocations.
* testsuite/gas/elf/elf.exp: Skip special handling of section2 test for XScale
targets - it is no longer needed.
2003-11-06 15:30:05 +00:00
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* On ARM architectures, added a new gas directive ".unreq" that undoes
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definitions created by ".req".
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2003-10-21 13:28:59 +00:00
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* Support for Motorola ColdFire MCF528x added.
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2003-10-08 14:37:20 +00:00
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* Added --gstabs+ switch to enable the generation of STABS debug format
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information with GNU extensions.
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2003-09-30 16:47:02 +00:00
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* Added support for MIPS64 Release 2.
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2003-09-04 11:04:38 +00:00
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* Added support for v850e1.
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2003-06-10 06:46:34 +00:00
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* Added -n switch for x86 assembler. By default, x86 GAS replaces
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multiple nop instructions used for alignment within code sections
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with multi-byte nop instructions such as leal 0(%esi,1),%esi. This
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switch disables the optimization.
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2003-09-30 16:44:04 +00:00
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Changes in 2.14:
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2003-04-26 01:35:58 +00:00
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* Added support for MIPS32 Release 2.
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2003-04-03 07:37:41 +00:00
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* Added support for Xtensa architecture.
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2003-03-25 20:56:01 +00:00
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* Support for Intel's iWMMXt processor (an ARM variant) added.
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2003-02-21 19:05:02 +00:00
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* An assembler test generator has been contributed and an example file that
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uses it (gas/testsuite/gas/all/test-gen.c and test-exmaple.c).
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2003-01-23 18:50:57 +00:00
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* Support for SH2E added.
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2002-12-02 15:42:15 +00:00
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* GASP has now been removed.
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2002-09-11 14:42:45 +00:00
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* Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C4x and TMS320C3x series of
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DSP's contributed by Michael Hayes and Svein E. Seldal.
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2002-08-28 10:38:51 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the Ubicom IP2xxx microcontroller added.
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2002-07-16 07:58:34 +00:00
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Changes in 2.13:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat. Models for FR400
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and FR500 included.
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2002-06-18 21:15:21 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for DLX processor added.
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2002-05-28 14:20:42 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* GASP has now been deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Use
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the macro facilities in GAS instead.
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2002-02-21 16:51:00 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* GASP now correctly parses floating point numbers. Unless the base is
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explicitly specified, they are interpreted as decimal numbers regardless of
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the currently specified base.
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2002-02-13 08:59:26 +00:00
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2002-02-20 10:46:54 +00:00
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Changes in 2.12:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for Don Knuth's MMIX, by Hans-Peter Nilsson.
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2002-02-15 04:04:03 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the OpenRISC 32-bit embedded processor by OpenCores.
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2002-01-31 17:33:08 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The ARM assembler now accepts -march=..., -mcpu=... and -mfpu=... for
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specifying the target instruction set. The old method of specifying the
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target processor has been deprecated, but is still accepted for
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compatibility.
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* NEWS: Mention new ARM command-line options and VFP support.
* config/tc-arm.c (ARM_CEXT_XSCALE): Replaces ARM_EXT_XSCALE. All
uses changed.
(ARM_CEXT_MAVERICK): Similarly.
(ARM_ANY): Now means any core instruction.
(CPU_DEFAULT): Default to ARM_ANY.
(uses_apcs_26, atcps, support_interwork, uses_apcs_float)
(pic_code): Declare for all object types. Make type int.
(legacy_cpu, legacy_fpu, mcpu_cpu_opt, mcpu_fpu_opt, march_cpu_opt)
(march_fpu_opt, mfpu_opt): Declare.
(md_longopts): Tidy up conditional definitions.
(arm_opts, arm_cpus, arm_archs, arm_fpus, arm_extensions)
(arm_long_opts): New tables.
(arm_parse_cpu, arm_parse_arch, arm_parse_fpu): New functions.
(arm_parse_extension): New function.
(md_parse_option): Rewrite using new table-driven system.
(md_show_usage): Use new table-driven system.
(md_begin): Calculate cpu_variant from command line option data.
* doc/as.texinfo (ARM ISA options): Docuement new ARM-specific
command-line options.
* doc/c-arm.texi: Likewise.
Testsuite:
* gas/arm/vfp1.d: Use new command-line options.
* gas/arm/vfp1xD.d: Likewise.
* gas/arm/arm.exp (vfp-bad): Likewise.
* gas/arm/maverick.d: Likewise.
2002-01-18 17:01:55 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the VFP floating-point instruction set has been added to
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the ARM assembler.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* New psuedo op: .incbin to include a set of binary data at a given point
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in the assembly. Contributed by Anders Norlander.
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2001-07-09 08:19:18 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The MIPS assembler now accepts -march/-mtune. -mcpu has been deprecated
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but still works for compatability.
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2001-06-29 21:27:43 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The MIPS assembler no longer issues a warning by default when it
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generates a nop instruction from a macro. The new command line option
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-n will turn on the warning.
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2001-06-11 20:40:36 +00:00
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2000-04-25 20:54:41 +00:00
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Changes in 2.11:
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2002-07-31 09:59:03 +00:00
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* Support for PDP-11 and 2.11BSD a.out format, by Lars Brinkhoff.
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* x86 gas now supports the full Pentium4 instruction set.
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2001-01-04 21:27:56 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for AMD x86-64 architecture, by Jan Hubicka, SuSE Labs.
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2000-12-30 18:05:10 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for Motorola 68HC11 and 68HC12.
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2000-08-08 21:40:33 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for Texas Instruments TMS320C54x (tic54x).
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2000-06-20 13:52:32 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for IA-64.
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2000-04-25 20:54:41 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for i860, by Jason Eckhardt.
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2000-08-14 18:50:13 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for CRIS (Axis Communications ETRAX series).
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2000-08-24 17:42:52 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* x86 gas has a new .arch pseudo op to specify the target CPU architecture.
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2000-05-13 12:49:55 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* x86 gas -q command line option quietens warnings about register size changes
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due to suffix, indirect jmp/call without `*', stand-alone prefixes, and
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translating various deprecated floating point instructions.
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2000-05-13 12:49:55 +00:00
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.10:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the ARM msr instruction was changed to only allow an immediate
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operand when altering the flags field.
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2000-09-08 21:05:06 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for ATMEL AVR.
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2000-03-27 08:39:14 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for IBM 370 ELF. Somewhat experimental.
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2000-02-24 01:40:42 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for numbers with suffixes.
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2000-02-08 14:13:57 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added support for breaking to the end of repeat loops.
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2000-02-23 16:01:21 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added support for parallel instruction syntax (DOUBLEBAR_PARALLEL).
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2000-02-23 16:01:21 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* New .elseif pseudo-op added.
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2000-02-08 14:13:57 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* New --fatal-warnings option.
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1999-10-11 04:10:04 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* picoJava architecture support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Motorola MCore 210 processor support added.
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1999-09-04 17:29:22 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* A new pseudo-op .intel_syntax has been implemented to allow gas to parse i386
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assembly programs with intel syntax.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* New pseudo-ops .func,.endfunc to aid in debugging user-written assembler code.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added -gdwarf2 option to generate DWARF 2 debugging information.
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1999-09-04 17:29:22 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Full 16-bit mode support for i386.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Greatly improved instruction operand checking for i386. This change will
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produce errors or warnings on incorrect assembly code that previous versions
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of gas accepted. If you get unexpected messages from code that worked with
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older versions of gas, please double check the code before reporting a bug.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Weak symbol support added for COFF targets.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Mitsubishi D30V support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Texas Instruments c80 (tms320c80) support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* i960 ELF support added.
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1999-05-27 21:57:48 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* ARM ELF support added.
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2000-05-29 18:18:42 +00:00
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.9:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Texas Instruments c30 (tms320c30) support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs
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and gcc 2.8. The new --traditional-format option disables this optimization.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a
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listing.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added -MD option to print dependencies.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.8:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* BeOS support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* MIPS16 support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Motorola ColdFire 5200 support added (configure for m68k and use -m5200).
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Alpha/VMS support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* m68k options --base-size-default-16, --base-size-default-32,
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--disp-size-default-16, and --disp-size-default-32 added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The alignment directives now take an optional third argument, which is the
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maximum number of bytes to skip. If doing the alignment would require
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skipping more than the given number of bytes, the alignment is not done at
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all.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The ELF assembler has a new pseudo-op, .symver, used for symbol versioning.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The -a option takes a new suboption, c (e.g., -alc), to skip false
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conditionals in listings.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added new pseudo-op, .equiv; it's like .equ, except that it is an error if
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the symbol is already defined.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.7:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The PowerPC assembler now allows the use of symbolic register names (r0,
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etc.) if -mregnames is used. Symbolic names preceded by a '%' (%r0, etc.)
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can be used any time. PowerPC 860 move to/from SPR instructions have been
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added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Alpha Linux (ELF) support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* PowerPC ELF support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* m68k Linux (ELF) support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* i960 Hx/Jx support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* i386/PowerPC gnu-win32 support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* SCO ELF support added. For OpenServer 5 targets (i386-unknown-sco3.2v5) the
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default is to build COFF-only support. To get a set of tools that generate
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ELF (they'll understand both COFF and ELF), you must configure with
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target=i386-unknown-sco3.2v5elf.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* m88k-motorola-sysv3* support added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.6:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Gas now directly supports macros, without requiring GASP.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Gas now has an MRI assembler compatibility mode. Use -M or --mri to select
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MRI mode. The pseudo-op ``.mri 1'' will switch into the MRI mode until the
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``.mri 0'' is seen; this can be convenient for inline assembler code.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added --defsym SYM=VALUE option.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added -mips4 support to MIPS assembler.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Added PIC support to Solaris and SPARC SunOS 4 assembler.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.4:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Converted this directory to use an autoconf-generated configure script.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* ARM support, from Richard Earnshaw.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Updated VMS support, from Pat Rankin, including considerably improved
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debugging support.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the control registers in the 68060.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Handles (ignores) a new directive ".this_GCC_requires_the_GNU_assembler", to
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provide for possible future gcc changes, for targets where gas provides some
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features not available in the native assembler. If the native assembler is
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used, it should become obvious pretty quickly what the problem is.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Usage message is available with "--help".
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The GNU Assembler Preprocessor (gasp) is included. (Actually, it was in 2.3
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also, but didn't get into the NEWS file.)
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Weak symbol support for a.out.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* A bug in the listing code which could cause an infinite loop has been fixed.
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Bugs in listings when generating a COFF object file have also been fixed.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Initial i386-svr4 PIC implementation from Eric Youngdale, based on code by
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Paul Kranenburg.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Improved Alpha support. Immediate constants can have a much larger range
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now. Support for the 21164 has been contributed by Digital.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Updated ns32k (pc532-mach, netbsd532) support from Ian Dall.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.3:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie and Ken Raeburn.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* RS/6000 and PowerPC support by Ian Taylor.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* VMS command scripts (make-gas.com, config-gas.com) have been worked on a bit,
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based on mail received from various people. The `-h#' option should work
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again too.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* HP-PA work, by Jeff Law. Note, for the PA, gas-2.3 has been designed to work
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with gdb-4.12 and gcc-2.6. As gcc-2.6 has not been released yet, a special
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version of gcc-2.5.8 has been patched to work with gas-2.3. You can retrieve
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this special version of gcc-2.5.8 via anonymous ftp from jaguar.cs.utah.edu
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in the "dist" directory.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Vax support in gas fixed for BSD, so it builds and seems to run a couple
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simple tests okay. I haven't put it through extensive testing. (GNU make is
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currently required for BSD 4.3 builds.)
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the DEC Alpha, running OSF/1 (ECOFF format). The gas support is
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based on code donated by CMU, which used an a.out-based format. I'm afraid
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the alpha-a.out support is pretty badly mangled, and much of it removed;
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making it work will require rewriting it as BFD support for the format anyways.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Irix 5 support.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The test suites have been fixed up a bit, so that they should work with a
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couple different versions of expect and dejagnu.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Symbols' values are now handled internally as expressions, permitting more
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flexibility in evaluating them in some cases. Some details of relocation
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handling have also changed, and simple constant pool management has been
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added, to make the Alpha port easier.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* New option "--statistics" for printing out program run times. This is
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intended to be used with the gcc "-Q" option, which prints out times spent in
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various phases of compilation. (You should be able to get all of them
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printed out with "gcc -Q -Wa,--statistics", I think.)
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.2:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* RS/6000 AIX and MIPS SGI Irix 5 support has been added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Configurations that are still in development (and therefore are convenient to
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have listed in configure.in) still get rejected without a minor change to
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gas/Makefile.in, so people not doing development work shouldn't get the
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impression that support for such configurations is actually believed to be
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reliable.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The program name (usually "as") is printed when a fatal error message is
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displayed. This should prevent some confusion about the source of occasional
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messages about "internal errors".
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* ELF support is falling into place. Support for the 386 should be working.
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Support for SPARC Solaris is in. HPPA support from Utah is being integrated.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Symbol values are maintained as expressions instead of being immediately
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boiled down to add-symbol, sub-symbol, and constant. This permits slightly
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more complex calculations involving symbols whose values are not alreadey
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known.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* DBX-style debugging info ("stabs") is now supported for COFF formats.
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If any stabs directives are seen in the source, GAS will create two new
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sections: a ".stab" and a ".stabstr" section. The format of the .stab
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section is nearly identical to the a.out symbol format, and .stabstr is
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its string table. For this to be useful, you must have configured GCC
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to generate stabs (by defining DBX_DEBUGGING_INFO), and must have a GDB
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that can use the stab sections (4.11 or later).
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* LynxOS, on i386 and m68k platforms, is now supported. SPARC LynxOS
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support is in progress.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.1:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have been
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incorporated, but not well tested yet.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Altered the opcode table split for m68k; it should require less VM to compile
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with gcc now.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Some minor adjustments to add (Convergent Technologies') Miniframe support,
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suggested by Ronald Cole.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* HPPA support (running OSF only, not HPUX) has been contributed by Utah. This
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includes improved ELF support, which I've started adapting for SPARC Solaris
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2.x. Integration isn't completely, so it probably won't work.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* HP9000/300 support, donated by HP, has been merged in.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Ian Taylor has finished the MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Irix) support.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Better error messages for unsupported configurations (e.g., hppa-hpux).
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Test suite framework is starting to become reasonable.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 2.0:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Mostly bug fixes.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Some more merging of BFD and ELF code, but ELF still doesn't work.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 1.94:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* BFD merge is partly done. Adventurous souls may try giving configure the
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"--with-bfd-assembler" option. Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out
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format accepts it; SPARC CPU accepts it. It's the default only for OS "elf"
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or "solaris". (ELF isn't really supported yet. It needs work. I've got
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some code from Utah for HP-PA ELF, and from DG for m88k ELF, but they're not
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fully merged yet.)
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* The 68K opcode table has been split in half. It should now compile under gcc
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without consuming ridiculous amounts of memory.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* A couple data structures have been reduced in size. This should result in
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saving a little bit of space at runtime.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for MIPS, from OSF and Ralph Campbell, has been merged in. The OSF
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code provided ROSE format support, which I haven't merged in yet. (I can
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make it available, if anyone wants to try it out.) Ralph's code, for BSD
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4.4, supports a.out format. We don't have ECOFF support in just yet; it's
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coming.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Support for the Hitachi H8/500 has been added.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* VMS host and target support should be working now, thanks chiefly to Eric
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Youngdale.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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Changes in 1.93.01:
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* For i386, .align is now power-of-two; was number-of-bytes.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* For m68k, "%" is now accepted before register names. For COFF format, which
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doesn't use underscore prefixes for C labels, it is required, so variable "a0"
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can be distinguished from the register.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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2002-07-19 07:52:40 +00:00
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* Last public release was 1.38. Lots of configuration changes since then, lots
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of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed.
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1999-05-03 07:29:11 +00:00
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