binutils-2.41

[Xi Ruoyao]

New minor version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

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

In the assembler:

• Add support for Intel FRED instructions.
• Add support for Intel LKGS instructions.
• Add support for Intel AMX-COMPLEX instructions.
• Add SME2 support to the AArch64 port.
• A new .insn directive is recognized by x86 gas.
• Add support for LoongArch LSX instructions.
• Add support for LoongArch LASX instructions.
• Add support for LoongArch LVZ instructions.
• Add support for LoongArch LBT instructions.
• Initial LoongArch support for linker relaxation has been added.
• Deprecate the LoongArch register aliases $v0, $v1, $x, $fv0 and $fv1.

In the linker:

• The linker now accepts a command line option of --remap-inputs <PATTERN>=<FILE> to relace any input file that matches <PATTERN> with <FILE>. In addition the option --remap-inputs-file=<FILE> can be used to specify a file containing any number of these remapping directives.

• The linker command line option --print-map-locals can be used to include local symbols in a linker map. (ELF targets only).

• For most ELF based targets, if the --enable-linker-version option is used then the version of the linker will be inserted as a string into the .comment section.

• The linker script syntax has a new command for output sections: ASCIZ "string" This will insert a zero-terminated string at the current location.

• Add command-line option, -z nosectionheader, to omit ELF section header.

In the other binary tools:

• The MIPS port now supports the Sony Interactive Entertainment Allegrex processor, used with the PlayStation Portable, which implements the MIPS II ISA along with a single-precision FPU and a few implementation-specific integer instructions.

• Objdump's --private option can now be used on PE format files to display the fields in the file header and section headers.

• New versioned release of libsframe: libsframe.so.1. This release introduces versioned symbols with version node name LIBSFRAME_1.0. This release also updates the ABI in an incompatible way: this includes removal of sframe_get_funcdesc_with_addr API, change in the behavior of sframe_fre_get_ra_offset and sframe_fre_get_fp_offset APIs.

• SFrame Version 2 is now the default (and only) format version supported by gas, ld, readelf and objdump.

• Add command-line option, --strip-section-headers, to objcopy and strip to remove ELF section header from ELF file.

• The RISC-V port now supports the following new standard extensions:
  • Zicond (conditional zero instructions)
  • Zfa (additional floating-point instructions)
  • Zvbb, Zvbc, Zvkg, Zvkned, Zvknh[ab], Zvksed, Zvksh, Zvkn, Zvknc, Zvkng, Zvks, Zvksc, Zvkg, Zvkt (vector crypto instructions)

• The RISC-V port now supports the following vendor-defined extensions:
  • XVentanaCondOps

• The LoongArch port now supports the following extensions:
  • LSX (Loongson SIMD eXtension; 128-bit vectors)
  • LASX (Loongson Advanced SIMD eXtension; 256-bit vectors)
  • LVZ (Loongson Virtualization extension)
  • LBT (Loongson Binary Translation extension)

• The LoongArch disassembly output received the following tweaks:
  • Colored output is now supported.
  • Some pseudo-instructions are now shown in place of the canonical forms, where semantics are equivalent. A disassembler option '-M no-aliases' is added to disable the new behavior.
  • Signed immediates are no longer printed with their hex representation.
  • Unrecognized instruction words are now shown with '.word'.

[thomas]

Since libsframe.so.0.0.0 is now libsframe.so.1.0.0, we might add a

<!ENTITY libsframe-version "1.0.0">

to packages.ent (at the binutils section) and use that entity in the stripping page.

At least the stripping page needs to be adjusted.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit be5b2e03fc6e7382f8c012d9fdb8e29a9bbbf17c

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed