improve format

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Ian Lance Taylor 1996-12-31 19:12:03 +00:00
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-*- text -*-
Changes since version 2.7:
Changes in version 2.8:
* Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section
names.
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* The LOADADDR expression was added to the linker script language.
Changes since version 2.6:
* MAX and MIN functions were added to the linker script language.
* The OVERLAY construct was added to the linker script language.
* New option --warn-section-align to warn when the address of an output section
changes due to alignment of an input section.
Changes in version 2.7:
* New option --cref to print out a cross reference table.
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the N_BINCL and N_EINCL stab types. This reduces the amount of debugging
information generated.
Changes since version 2.5:
Changes in version 2.6:
* When an ELF section name is representable as a C identifier (this is not true
of most ELF section names), the linker will automatically define symbols
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only be defined once in the output file. The --traditional-format switch will
prevent this optimization.
Changes since version 2.4:
Changes in version 2.5:
* The linker now supports linking against SunOS shared libraries. It still can
not link SunOS PIC (Position Independent Code) files, so it can not be used to
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* The -V flag was made a synonym for -v, for SVR4 compatibility. The old -V
behaviour is available via --verbose.
Changes since version 2.3:
Changes in version 2.4:
* New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor. For a.out and ecoff
formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time
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forgot to note it.) Some of their C library routines don't work when
statically linked, and the GNU linker doesn't support dynamic linking yet.
Changes since version 2.2:
Changes in version 2.3:
* Weak symbols are now supported.
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* Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
Changes since version 2.1:
Changes in version 2.2:
* The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string
table size. The effect of this is that files linked from many input
files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical
static symbols) should be much smaller.
Changes since version 2.0:
Changes in version 2.1:
* The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.