Updated: binutils-20050610-1

Updated: binutils-20050610-1

[cgf]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.

This version of binutils contains a fix which should stop the ld
--auto-image-base option from locating dlls into the address space of
the cygwin dll.

For a brief description of this package, and a listing of the files it
contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/binutils .  The project web
page has more details: http://sourceware.org/binutils/ .

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Updated: binutils-20060709-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This
is a refresh from the current binutils CVS.

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contains, see http://cygwin.com/packages/binutils .  The project web
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Updated: binutils-20060817-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This
is a refresh from the current binutils CVS.  It fixes the problem mentioned
here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-08/msg00055.html

(And, thanks for the test case which exposed the problem)

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Updated: binutils-20080523-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This
is a refresh from the current binutils CVS.

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http://cygwin.com/packages/binutils .  The project web page has more
details: http://sourceware.org/binutils/ .

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Updated: binutils-20080523-2

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This
version contains a bug fix for the problem described here:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2008-07/msg00106.html

i.e., "nm -C" did not remove leading underscores.

There should be no other changes besides this one fix from Alan Modra.


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[1.7] Updated: binutils-2.19.51-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a much-needed, much-delayed refresh against the current CVS.  It should
work better with gcc-4.

The list of changes is included after the unsubscribe info.  This is a
list of changes from three binutils NEWS files.  Some entries may not be
pertinent to Cygwin.



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*** binutils changes:

* Readelf can now display the relocated contents of a section as a sequence
  of bytes via the --relocated-dump=<name|number> command line option.

* The gprof program has been given a new command line option:
  --external-symbols-table=<filename> which reads in symbols from a specified
  file.

* The plugin target has been added to bfd. It can load the same shared objects
  used by gold and uses them to provide basic support for new file formats.

* The verilog memory hex dump file format is now supported as an output format
  for objcopy.

* Add --file-alignment, --heap, --image-base, --section-alignment,
  --stack and --subsystem command line options to objcopy, which will
  set PE optional header.

* Option --dwarf/-W of objdump is now as flexible as readelf --debug-dump/-w.

* --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
  symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries.  In the
  latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED
  entry of one of the libraries already linked.

* Added --prefix=PREFIX and --prefix-strip=LEVEL switches to objdump to
  add absolute paths for -S.

* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to dlltool to allow fall-
  back to old import table generation with null element prefix.

* Added --identify-strict switch to cause --identify <implib> to 
  report an error when the import library is associated with
  multiple DLLs.

* Added --identify <implib> option to dlltool, which determines the
  name of the DLL associated with the specified <implib>.

* Support for PowerPC booke64 instructions has been removed.  The assembler no
  longer accepts -mbooke32 or -mbooke64 and the disassembler no longer accepts
  -Mbooke32 or -Mbooke64.  Instead, -mbooke and -Mbooke should be used.

Changes in 2.19:

* Added -wL switch to dump decoded contents of .debug_line.

* Added support for "thin" archives which contain pathnames pointing to

*** gas changes:

* Add support for common symbol alignment to PE formats.

* Add support for the new discriminator column in the DWARF line table,
  with a discriminator operand for the .loc directive.

* Add support for Sunplus score architecture.

* The .type pseudo-op now accepts a type of STT_GNU_IFUNC which can be used to
  indicate that if the symbol is the target of a relocation, its value should
  not be use.  Instead the function should be invoked and its result used as
  the value.
 
* Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture.

Changes in 2.19:

* New pseudo op .cfi_val_encoded_addr, to record constant addresses in unwind
  tables without runtime relocation.

* New command line option, -h-tick-hex, for sh, m32c, and h8/300 targets, which
  adds compatibility with H'00 style hex constants.

 
*** ld changes:

* PE targets now support a GNU extension to allow the alignment of common
  common symbols to be specified.  This support uses custom options in
  the .drectve section, which will be disregarded by the native tools.

* PE targets now add primitive support for ELF version scripts; symbols
  are not versioned, but the local and global symbol visibility directives
  are respected when filtering symbols in auto-export mode.

* New option --no-export-dynamic to undo the effect of the -E and
  --export-dynamic options.

* ELF: --warn-alternate-em option to warn if an object has alternate
  ELF machine code.

* New script function REGION_ALIAS to add alias names to memory regions.

* PE targets no longer make use of the long section names PE extension to
  the COFF format when generating executable images, by default.  The old
  (slightly non-conformant) behaviour can still be invoked by using the
  new '--enable-long-section-names' command-line option.  It is also enabled
  automatically in the presence of un-stripped debug information, as GDB
  needs to be able to find the debug info sections by their full names.

* For GNU/Linux systems the linker will now avoid processing any relocations
  made against symbols of the STT_GNU_IFUNC type and instead emit them into
  the resulting binary for processing by the loader.

* --as-needed now links in a dynamic library if it satisfies undefined
  symbols in regular objects, or in other dynamic libraries.  In the
  latter case the library is not linked if it is found in a DT_NEEDED
  entry of one of the libraries already linked.

* Add a new command line option, -Ttext-segment ADDR, for ELF targets
  to set the address of the first byte of the text segment.

* Add support for Sunplus score architecture.

* Add new option --use-nul-prefixed-import-tables to ld for PE targets to
  allow fallback to old import table generation with null element prefix.

* Windows PE systems now support a new --exclude-modules-for-implib option,
  allowing users to partition object files and archive members between a DLL
  and its associated import library as they are generated during linking.

* Add support for Lattice Mico32 (lm32) architecture.

* Add CR16 ELF --embedded-relocs (used to embedded relocations into binaries 
  for Embedded-PIC code) option.

* Add to the PE/PE+ targets the support of two different kinds of
  pseudo-relocations.  They can be selected by the switches
  --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc-v1 and --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc-v2.
  For the switch --enable-runtime-pseudo-reloc it uses for 32-bit
  runtime pseudo relocation version one, for 64-bit the version two.

Changes in 2.19:

* Linker scripts support a new INSERT command that makes it easier to
  augment the default script.

Updated: binutils-2.19.51-2

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against the current CVS.

A partial list of changes is included after the unsubscribe info.  This list
comes from three binutils NEWS files.

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* Add support for delay importing to dlltool.  Use the --output-delaylib <file>
   switch to create a delay-import library.  The resulting app will load the dll
   as soon as the first function is called.  It will link to __delayLoadHelper2()
   from the static delayimp library, which will import LoadLibraryA and
   GetProcAddress from kernel32.

* Extend .def file syntax by '== <ID>' for imports and exports. This allows
  to alias the import/export table name written in PE image.

* Add --exclude-all-symbols option to PE based linkers.  This prevents all
  symbols from automatically being exported.

* Improvements in pseudo-reloc for PE targets.

Re: Updated: binutils-2.20.51-2

[Christopher Faylor]

A correction: The new version of binutils is binutils-2.20.51-2, not
binutils-2.19-51-2.  The -2 part is correct.  It reflects a botched -1
upload.

setup.exe will install the right version.  The typo was only in the
announcement.

cgf

Updated: binutils-2.21.53-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against the current CVS.

A partial list of changes is included after the unsubscribe info.  This list
comes from three binutils NEWS files.  Some of it may not pertain to the
Windows platform.

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				* * * *

== For binutils ==

* Add support for displaying the contents of .debug.macro sections.

* Add --preprocessor-arg option to windres to specify additional options
  passed to preprocessor.

* Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump.  These are used by
  the new Emacs mode, see dwarf-mode.el.

Changes in 2.21:

* Add --interleave-width option to objcopy to allowing copying a range of
  bytes from the input to the output with the --interleave option.

* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.

* Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using
  the -u / --unwind option.

* Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table.

* A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format
  binaries.

* Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by
  '== <ID>' option.

* Add a new command line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the
  address before function name or source filename.

* Add a new command line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have
  a more human readable output.

* The hppa/som targets can now be compiled on any host.

== For ld ==

* INPUT_SECTION_FLAGS has been added to the linker script language
to allow selection of input sections by section header section flags.

* Add support for the Tilera TILEPRO and TILE-Gx architectures.

* Added SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY to the linker script language to permit
sorting sections by numerical value of the GCC init_priority attribute
encoded in the section name.

Changes in 2.21:

* Linker script expression evaluation is somewhat more sane.  This may
  break scripts that depend on quirks of the old expression evaluation.

* Turn off underscoring for x86_64 PE+-COFF targets.  For old behavior the
  option --enable-leading-mingw64-underscores can be used on configure of
  bfd.

* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.

* --add-needed renamed to --copy-dt-needed-entries in order to avoid confusion
  with --as-needed option.

* Extend .def file syntax by '== <ID>' for imports and exports. This allows
  to alias the import/export table name written in PE image.

* Add --exlcude-all-symbols option to PE based linkers.  This prevents all
  symbols from automatically being exported.

* Add support for the Renesas RX processor.

* Add support for alpha-vms target.

== For gas ==

* Add support for the Tilera TILEPRO and TILE-Gx architectures.

Changes in 2.21:

* Gas no longer requires doubling of ampersands in macros.

* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.

* GAS now understands an extended syntax in the .section directive flags
  for COFF targets that allows the section's alignment to be specified.  This
  feature has also been backported to the 2.20 release series, starting with
  2.20.1.

* Add support for the Renesas RX processor.

* New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests
  compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output
  file.  Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and
  gold, but not currently by Gnu ld.

Updated: binutils-2.21.53-2

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  There
is only one change in this release: the previously missing /usr/include
directory is now correctly populated with the right header files.

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Updated: binutils-2.22.51-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This
is a refresh against CVS.  The contents of the NEWS file for this snapshot
are in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/binutils-2.22.51-1.README .  The main reason
for the release is to pull in Dave Korn's changes as discussed here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-09/msg00386.html

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Updated: binutils-2.22.51-2

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against CVS.  The contents of the NEWS file for this snapshot
are in /usr/share/doc/Cygwin/binutils-2.22.51-2.README .  However, there
is no reason to read that file.  The only real change is to reset the
auto-image-base for dlls as discussed here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2012-03/msg00019.html

This change will stop annoying collisions with cygwin1.dll for newly
created dlls which use the --enable-auto-image-base option.  With this
release the base is increased.  Additionally --enable-auto-image-base
now takes an optional argument which controls where the base starts.


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Updated: binutils-2.23.51-1

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against CVS.

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Updated: binutils-2.24.51-1 (x86/x86_64)

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against the official git repository.  The binutils package
contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities.  It is
available in the "Devel" category under Cygwin's setup.

This update contains many bug fixes but the primary Cygwin-specific
improvement is mentioned here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-03/msg00212.html

Updated: binutils-2.24.51-2 (x86/x86_64)

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against the official git repository.  The binutils package
contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities.  It is
available in the "Devel" category under Cygwin's setup.

This update contains a few bug fixes.  Specifically it should address:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-03/msg00298.html
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-03/threads.html#00317
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-03/threads.html#00369

Updated: binutils-2.24.51-3 (x86/x86_64)

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against the official git repository.  The binutils package
contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities.  It is
available in the "Devel" category under Cygwin's setup.

Updated: binutils-2.24.51-4 (x86/x86_64)

[Christopher Faylor]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against the official git repository.  The binutils package
contains the GNU assembler, linker and binary utilities.  It is
available in the "Devel" category under Cygwin's setup.