[binutils-gdb] binutils: NEWS: Announce LoongArch changes in the 2.41 cycle

[binutils-gdb] binutils: NEWS: Announce LoongArch changes in the 2.41 cycle

[liu & zhensong]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=0ed3ac2f4a06cb842065d4cf2d1fe1c269d508b9

commit 0ed3ac2f4a06cb842065d4cf2d1fe1c269d508b9
Author: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>
Date:   Sun Jul 2 19:10:52 2023 +0800

    binutils: NEWS: Announce LoongArch changes in the 2.41 cycle
    
    binutils/ChangeLog:
    
            * NEWS: Mention LoongArch changes for 2.41.
    
    Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name>

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 binutils/NEWS | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/binutils/NEWS b/binutils/NEWS
index 834e648db6c..939cfead8de 100644
--- a/binutils/NEWS
+++ b/binutils/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,20 @@
 * The RISC-V port now supports the following vendor-defined extensions:
   - XVentanaCondOps
 
+* The LoongArch port now supports the following extensions:
+  - LSX (Loongson SIMD eXtension; 128-bit vectors)
+  - LASX (Loongson Advanced SIMD eXtension; 256-bit vectors)
+  - LVZ (Loongson Virtualization extension)
+  - LBT (Loongson Binary Translation extension)
+
+* The LoongArch disassembly output received the following tweaks:
+  - Colored output is now supported.
+  - Some pseudo-instructions are now shown in place of the canonical forms,
+    where semantics are equivalent. A disassembler option '-M no-aliases' is
+    added to disable the new behavior.
+  - Signed immediates are no longer printed with their hex representation.
+  - Unrecognized instruction words are now shown with '.word'.
+
 Changes in 2.40:
 
 * Objdump has a new command line option --show-all-symbols which will make it