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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 6/6] NEWS: Mention DT_RELR support
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:38:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220331163858.95516-7-hjl.tools@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220331163858.95516-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com>

---
 NEWS | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 626eeabf5d..0ab26f168f 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.
 
 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
 
-- 
2.35.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-03-31 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-31 16:38 [PATCH v7 0/6] Support DT_RELR relative relocation format H.J. Lu
2022-03-31 16:38 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] elf: Define DT_RELR related macros and types H.J. Lu
2022-04-04 15:46   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-09  0:19     ` Fangrui Song
2022-03-31 16:38 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] Add GLIBC_ABI_DT_RELR for DT_RELR support H.J. Lu
2022-04-04 15:55   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-13 16:46     ` H.J. Lu
2022-03-31 16:38 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] elf: Support DT_RELR relative relocation format [BZ #27924] H.J. Lu
2022-04-04 17:12   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-13 16:54     ` H.J. Lu
2022-03-31 16:38 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] elf: Properly handle zero DT_RELA/DT_REL values H.J. Lu
2022-04-04 17:13   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-31 16:38 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] Add --disable-default-dt-relr H.J. Lu
2022-04-04 18:15   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2022-03-31 16:38 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2022-04-04 18:16   ` [PATCH v7 6/6] NEWS: Mention DT_RELR support Adhemerval Zanella
2022-04-09  0:16     ` Fangrui Song

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