GNU Binutils 2.34 released

GNU Binutils 2.34 released

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Everyone,

We are pleased to announce that version 2.34 of the GNU Binutils project
sources have been released and are now available for download at:

   https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils
   https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/

The md5 checksums are:

   b0afc4d29db31ee6fdf3ebc34e85e482  binutils-2.34.tar.bz2
   079f3414a4c2b8f58e05acfd03b57355  binutils-2.34.tar.gz
   eda15400c0e76f4a152ef2505e7204d2  binutils-2.34.tar.lz
   664ec3a2df7805ed3464639aaae332d6  binutils-2.34.tar.xz

This release contains numerous bug fixes, and also the
following new features:

  * The disassembler (objdump --disassemble) now has an option to
    generate ascii art thats show the arcs between that start and end
    points of control flow instructions.

  * The binutils tools now have support for debuginfod.  Debuginfod is a 
    HTTP service for distributing ELF/DWARF debugging information as
    well as source code.  The tools can now connect to debuginfod
    servers in order to download debug information about the files that
    they are processing.

  * The assembler and linker now support the generation of ELF format
    files for the Z80 architecture.

Our thanks go out to all of the binutils contributors, past and
present, for helping to make this release possible.

Cheers
  Nick Clifton

Re: GNU Binutils 2.34 released

[H.J. Lu]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 4:56 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> We are pleased to announce that version 2.34 of the GNU Binutils project
> sources have been released and are now available for download at:
>
>    https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils
>    https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/
>
> The md5 checksums are:
>
>    b0afc4d29db31ee6fdf3ebc34e85e482  binutils-2.34.tar.bz2
>    079f3414a4c2b8f58e05acfd03b57355  binutils-2.34.tar.gz
>    eda15400c0e76f4a152ef2505e7204d2  binutils-2.34.tar.lz
>    664ec3a2df7805ed3464639aaae332d6  binutils-2.34.tar.xz
>
> This release contains numerous bug fixes, and also the
> following new features:
>
>   * The disassembler (objdump --disassemble) now has an option to
>     generate ascii art thats show the arcs between that start and end
>     points of control flow instructions.
>
>   * The binutils tools now have support for debuginfod.  Debuginfod is a
>     HTTP service for distributing ELF/DWARF debugging information as
>     well as source code.  The tools can now connect to debuginfod
>     servers in order to download debug information about the files that
>     they are processing.
>
>   * The assembler and linker now support the generation of ELF format
>     files for the Z80 architecture.
>
> Our thanks go out to all of the binutils contributors, past and
> present, for helping to make this release possible.

Hi Nick.

Thanks for doing this.  Can you also update the latest release of GNU
binutils in

https://sourceware.org/binutils/

to 2.34?

-- 
H.J.

Re: GNU Binutils 2.34 released

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

> Thanks for doing this.  Can you also update the latest release of GNU
> binutils in
> 
> https://sourceware.org/binutils/
> 
> to 2.34?

I did.  Well I thought that I did.  What did I miss ?

Cheers
  Nick

Re: GNU Binutils 2.34 released

[Jozef Lawrynowicz]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 11:00:28 +0000
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi H.J.
> 
> > Thanks for doing this.  Can you also update the latest release of GNU
> > binutils in
> > 
> > https://sourceware.org/binutils/
> > 
> > to 2.34?  
> 
> I did.  Well I thought that I did.  What did I miss ?

I'm guessing H.J. just needs to refresh his browser cache.

The page was showing "The latest release of GNU binutils is 2.33.1" until I did
Crtl+F5 ;)

Jozef
> 
> Cheers
>   Nick
> 
> 

Re: GNU Binutils 2.34 released

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 3:18 AM Jozef Lawrynowicz
<jozef.l@mittosystems.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 11:00:28 +0000
> Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi H.J.
> >
> > > Thanks for doing this.  Can you also update the latest release of GNU
> > > binutils in
> > >
> > > https://sourceware.org/binutils/
> > >
> > > to 2.34?
> >
> > I did.  Well I thought that I did.  What did I miss ?
>
> I'm guessing H.J. just needs to refresh his browser cache.
>
> The page was showing "The latest release of GNU binutils is 2.33.1" until I did
> Crtl+F5 ;)
>

Hi Nick,

I saw it now.  I checked

commit 7dc03c534a71e56125efe5ebb4738959c68f646f
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 6 07:50:16 2020 -0800

    [2.34] Mention x86 assembler options to align branches

            * NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options to align branches for
            binutils 2.34.

    (cherry picked from commit 5eb617a71463fa6810cd14f57adfe7a1efc93a96)

into 2.34 branch.  Is that possible to set URL of gas/NEWS to it?

Thanks.


-- 
H.J.

Re: GNU Binutils 2.34 released

[Nick Clifton]

Hi H.J.

>     [2.34] Mention x86 assembler options to align branches
> 
>             * NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options to align branches for
>             binutils 2.34.
> 
>     (cherry picked from commit 5eb617a71463fa6810cd14f57adfe7a1efc93a96)
> 
> into 2.34 branch.  Is that possible to set URL of gas/NEWS to it?

Normally I would say no.  But given that this is an important issue
I have made the change.  I will also ask the FSF web page maintainer
to make the same change.

Cheers
  Nick

PS. You may need to reload the page in order to see the change...

Re: GNU Binutils 2.34 released

[H.J. Lu]

On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 7:12 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi H.J.
>
> >     [2.34] Mention x86 assembler options to align branches
> >
> >             * NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options to align branches for
> >             binutils 2.34.
> >
> >     (cherry picked from commit 5eb617a71463fa6810cd14f57adfe7a1efc93a96)
> >
> > into 2.34 branch.  Is that possible to set URL of gas/NEWS to it?
>
> Normally I would say no.  But given that this is an important issue
> I have made the change.  I will also ask the FSF web page maintainer
> to make the same change.

Thanks.  I appreciate it.

> Cheers
>   Nick
>
> PS. You may need to reload the page in order to see the change...
>


-- 
H.J.