From 781decaefd8d9641892f26fb2135a7f7abca9f30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Tue, 31 Dec 1996 19:12:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] improve format --- ld/NEWS | 23 +++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/ld/NEWS b/ld/NEWS index b82f9cc23f..0cd2e7b422 100644 --- a/ld/NEWS +++ b/ld/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -*- text -*- -Changes since version 2.7: +Changes in version 2.8: * Linker scripts may now contain shell wildcard characters for file and section names. @@ -9,7 +9,14 @@ Changes since version 2.7: * 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. @@ -24,7 +31,7 @@ Changes since version 2.6: 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 @@ -57,7 +64,7 @@ enums, so that even if the same type is defined in multiple input files it will 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 @@ -96,7 +103,7 @@ far, this function has been written for the i386, m68k, a29k and SH targets. * 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 @@ -120,7 +127,7 @@ Changes since version 2.3: 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. @@ -129,14 +136,14 @@ Changes since version 2.2: * 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.