binutils-2.33.1

[Douglas R. Reno]

New point version

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

    Assembler:
    
    * Adds support for the Arm Scalable Vector Extension version 2
      (SVE2) instructions, the Arm Transactional Memory Extension (TME)
      instructions and the Armv8.1-M Mainline and M-profile Vector
      Extension (MVE) instructions.

    * Adds support for the Arm Cortex-A76AE, Cortex-A77 and Cortex-M35P
      processors and the AArch64 Cortex-A34, Cortex-A65, Cortex-A65AE,
      Cortex-A76AE, and Cortex-A77 processors.

    * Adds a .float16 directive for both Arm and AArch64 to allow
      encoding of 16-bit floating point literals.

    * For MIPS, Add -m[no-]fix-loongson3-llsc option to fix (or not)
      Loongson3 LLSC Errata.  Add a --enable-mips-fix-loongson3-llsc=[yes|no]
      configure time option to set the default behavior. Set the default
      if the configure option is not used to "no".

    Linker:

    * The Cortex-A53 Erratum 843419 workaround now supports a choice of
      which workaround to use.  The option --fix-cortex-a53-843419 now
      takes an optional argument --fix-cortex-a53-843419[=full|adr|adrp]
      which can be used to force a particular workaround to be used.
      See --help for AArch64 for more details.

    * Add support for GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI and
      GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_PAC  in ELF GNU program properties
      in the AArch64 ELF linker. 

    * Add -z force-bti for AArch64 to enable GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI
      on output while warning about missing GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_BTI 
      on inputs and use PLTs protected with BTI.

    * Add -z pac-plt for AArch64 to pick PAC enabled PLTs.

    Utilities:

    * Add --source-comment[=<txt>] option to objdump which if present,
      provides a prefix to source code lines displayed in a disassembly.

    * Add --set-section-alignment <section-name>=<power-of-2-align>
      option to objcopy to allow the changing of section alignments.

    * Add --verilog-data-width option to objcopy for verilog targets to
      control width of data elements in verilog hex format.

    * The separate debug info file options of readelf (--debug-dump=links
      and --debug-dump=follow) and objdump (--dwarf=links and
      --dwarf=follow-links) will now display and/or follow multiple
      links if more than one are present in a file.  (This usually
      happens when gcc's -gsplit-dwarf option is used).

      In addition objdump's --dwarf=follow-links now also affects its
      other display options, so that for example, when combined with
      --syms it will cause the symbol tables in any linked debug info
      files to also be displayed.  In addition when combined with
      --disassemble the --dwarf= follow-links option will ensure that
      any symbol tables in the linked files are read and used when
      disassembling code in the main file.

    * Add support for dumping types encoded in the Compact Type Format
      to objdump and readelf.    

[Bruce Dubbs]

For more changes, see also ​https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-07/msg00005.html

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at revision 11685.