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--*- text -*-
-
-Changes in binutils 2.10:
-
-* New command line switch to objdump -M (or --disassembler-options) which takes
-  a parameter which can then be interpreted on a per-target basis by the
-  disassembler.  Used by ARM targets to select register name sets, ISA, APCS or
-  raw verions.
-  
-* objdump support for -mi386:intel which causes disassembly to be displayed
-  with intel syntax.
-
-* New program: readelf.  This displays the contents of ELF format files,
-  regardless of target machine.
-
-* objcopy now takes --change-section-lma, --change-section-vma, and
-  --change-section-address options.  The old --adjust-section-vma option is
-  equivalent to --change-section-address.  The other --adjust-* options are now
-  renamed to --change-*, although --adjust-* continues to work.
-
-* dlltool now supports the IMPORTS command.
-
-* dlltool now takes --export-all-symbols, --no-export-all-symbols,
-  --exclude-symbols, and --no-default-excludes options.
-
-* objcopy now takes a -j/--only-section option to copy only the specified
-  sections.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.9:
-
-* Added windres program, which can be used to manipulate resources in WIN32
-  files as used on Windows 95 and Windows NT.
-
-* The objcopy --gap-fill and --pad-to options operate on the LMA rather than
-  the VMA of the sections.
-
-* Added S modifier to ar to not build a symbol table.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.8:
-
-* The objdump disassembly format has been changed, and hopefully improved.  Use
-  the new --prefix-addresses option to get the old format.  There are also new
-  --disassemble-zeroes and --no-show-raw-insn options which affect disassembler
-  output.
-
-* Formats may now be specified as configuration triplets.  For example,
-  objdump -b i386-pc-linux.  The triplets are not passed through config.sub,
-  so they must be in canonical form.
-
-* Added new addr2line program.  This uses the debugging information to convert
-  an address into a file name and line number within a program.
-
-* Added --change-leading-char argument to objcopy.
-
-* Added --weaken argument to objcopy.
-
-* objdump --dynamic-reloc now works on ELF executables and shared libraries.
-
-* Added --adjust-vma option to objdump.
-
-* Added -C/--demangle option to objdump.
-
-* Added -p/--preserve-dates option to strip and objcopy.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.7:
-
-* Added --enable-shared and --enable-commonbfdlib options to configure.
-
-* Added --debugging argument to objdump and objcopy.
-
-* Added --defined-only argument to nm.
-
-* Added --remove-leading-char argument to objcopy.
-
-* The objdump --line-numbers option is now meaningful with --reloc.
-
-* Added --line-numbers option to nm.
-
-* Added --endian/-EB/-EL option to objdump.
-
-* Added support for Alpha OpenVMS/AXP.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.6:
-
-* Added -N/--strip-symbol and -K/--keep-symbol arguments to strip and objcopy.
-
-* Added several arguments to objcopy to provide some control over how the new
-  file is laid out in memory.  Also added binary output format to BFD to permit
-  generating plain binary files.
-
-* Added --start-address and --stop-address options to objdump.
-
-* ar and ranlib now work on AIX.  The tools are now built by default on AIX.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.5:
-
-* Changed objdump -dr to dump the relocs interspersed with the assembly
-  listing, for a more useful listing of relocateable files.
-
-* Changed objdump -d/--disassemble to only disassemble SEC_CODE sections.
-  Added -D/--disassemble-all option to disassemble all sections.
-
-* Added --size-sort option to nm.
-
-* strip and objcopy should now be able to handle dynamically linked ELF
-  executables.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.4:
-
-* Support for HP-PA (by Jeff Law), i386 Mach (by David Mackenzie), RS/6000 and
-  PowerPC (except ar and ranlib; by Ian Taylor).
-
-* Support for Irix 5.
-
-* Programs `strip' and `objcopy' will not attempt to write dynamically linked
-  ELF output files, since BFD currently can't create them properly.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.3:
-
-* A new --stabs argument has been added to objdump to dump stabs sections in
-  ELF and COFF files.
-
-* A new program, nlmconv, has been added.  It can convert object files into
-  Novell NetWare Loadable Modules.
-
-* The strings program has been added.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.2:
-
-* The 'copy' program has been renamed to 'objcopy', for consistency with
-  'objdump', and because 'copy' might more plausibly be used as a synonym for
-  'cp'.
-
-* The new stand-alone program c++filt is a filter that converts encoded
-  (mangled) C++ assembly-level identifiers to user-level names.  (Note: This
-  may get moved to the gcc distribution.)
-
-* nm -o on an archive now prefixes each line with the archive name, matching
-  the output from BSD nm.
-
-* ar (and ld) can now read (but not write) BSD4.4-style archives.
-
-* New support for H8500, Z8000, and the Hitach SH.
-
-* Dis-assembler interface changed to allow sharing with gdb.
-
-* There is new Elf code, but it is not yet ready for general use.
-
-* There is the beginnings of a test suite.
-
-Changes in binutils 2.1:
-
-* There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the other utilities
-  should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.  Please let us know how well this works.
-
-* ar now automatically creates a symbol table (a __.SYMDEF member, in the BSD
-  version), if there are any object files in the archive.  So running ranlib is
-  now redundant (unless the non-standard q command is used).  This is required
-  for Posix.2 conformance.
-
-* The archive-reading code now reads both BSD-style and SYSV-style archives
-  independently of the selected target format.  This is to encourage people to
-  switch to SYSV-format, which has a number of advantages.
-
-* The strip and copy programs now have options to remove debug-symbols only
-  and/or local symbols only.  They now also support long options.
-
-
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