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Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 15:09:14 -0400 From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> To: info-gnu@gnu.org Subject: GNU binutils 2.9 is now available ------- Start of forwarded message ------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- GNU binutils 2.9 is now available. The GNU binutils include the GNU assembler (gas), the GNU linker, gprof, and various binary utilities. ================================================== This release includes many bug fixes since the last release. It also includes the following new features (from the NEWS files): GNU assembler (gas): - - -------------------- Texas Instruction c30 (tms320c30) support added. The assembler now optimizes the exception frame information generated by egcs and gcc 2.8. The new --traditional-format disables this optimization. Added --gstabs option to generate stabs debugging information. The -a option takes a new suboption, m (e.g., -alm) to expand macros in a listing. Added -MD option to print dependencies. GNU linker: - - ----------- * Added SQUAD to the linker script language. * New option --no-warn-mismatch. * The MEMORY command now parses the attributes to determine where sections that are not placed in a specific memory region are placed. GNU binutils: - - ------------- * 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. ================================================== Many people have contributed to this release with bug reports and patches. This release would not be as good as it is without their generous work. People who deserve particular mention for contributions to this release include Brent Baccala, Andrew Cagney, Nick Clifton, Ian Dall, Ulrich Drepper, Richard Earnshaw, Doug Evans, Fred Fish, Steve Haworth, J.J. van der Heijden, Richard Henderson, Robert Hoehne, Manfred Hollstein, Martin Hunt, Jakub Jelinek, Klaus Kaempf, Geoff Keating, Mumit Khan, Jeffrey A Law, Robert Lipe, H.J. Lu, Bob Manson, Gordon Matzigkeit, Michael Meissner, Alan Modra, Bill Moyer, Phillippe De Muyter, Geoffrey Noer, Ton van Overbeek, Ken Raeburn, Pat Rankin, J"orn Rennecke, Gavin Romig-Koch, Gordon W. Ross, Andreas Schwab, Joel Sherrill, Tom Tromey, and Jim Wilson. Many other people at Cygnus Solutions were involved with testing the code, providing development platforms, and supporting the mailing lists and snapshots. I'm sure I've accidentally omitted many people who deserve mention: my apologies. ================================================== The binutils-2.9.tar.gz file is 5687300 bytes long. sum: 50988 5555 md5sum: 1ea2156826718eb182843f036c04b0fc b binutils-2.9.tar.gz The tar file is available from any GNU archive site. (List below. - gnu) ================================================== Bug reports, complaints and compliments about the binutils release should be sent to bug-gnu-utils@gnu.org. 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