From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by sourceware.org (Postfix, from userid 1039) id 4534F3857805; Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:18:47 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 4534F3857805 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: H.J. Lu To: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [glibc] NEWS: Mention DT_RELR support X-Act-Checkin: glibc X-Git-Author: H.J. Lu X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Oldrev: 4ada564f35fd7b87cb12ff2afad76af93cefde50 X-Git-Newrev: 4c5b1cf5a68c5424323251a0765b1011601548a7 Message-Id: <20220426171847.4534F3857805@sourceware.org> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:18:47 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: glibc-cvs@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Glibc-cvs mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2022 17:18:47 -0000 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4c5b1cf5a68c5424323251a0765b1011601548a7 commit 4c5b1cf5a68c5424323251a0765b1011601548a7 Author: H.J. Lu Date: Thu Feb 3 10:04:22 2022 -0800 NEWS: Mention DT_RELR support Diff: --- NEWS | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 4b6d9de2b5..ef8ac4acd2 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ Version 2.36 Major new features: - [Add new features here] +* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to + glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of + relative relocations in shared object files and position independent + executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for + -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets + in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR. Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: