[el5_u2_base] binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5.i386

Name:	binutils
Version:	2.17.50.0.6
Release:	6.el5
Architecture:	i386
Group:	Development/Tools
Size:	6895373
License:	GPL
RPM:	binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5.i386.rpm
Source RPM:	binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.el5.src.rpm
Build Date:	Thu Mar 13 2008
Build Host:	ca-build15.us.oracle.com
Vendor:	Oracle USA
URL:	http://sources.redhat.com/binutils
Summary:	A GNU collection of binary utilities.
Description:	Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).

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Mon Dec 31 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-6.el5

- full power6 support (Alan Modra, Peter Bergner, Ben Elliston,
  Anton Blanchard, #253108)
- demangle ppc64 dot symbols in gprof (Jan Kratochvil, #242057)
- SSE5 support in gas and objdump (Michael Meissner, Dwarakanath Rajagopal,
  Tony Linthicum, H.J.Lu, #426906)

Fri May 25 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-5.el5

- fix ld --unique with new DWARF3 sections .debug_ranges and .debug_pubtypes
  (Alan Modra, #241252)
- fix segfault in ppc64 version script handling (Andreas Schwab)

Wed May 23 2007 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-4.el5

- 10x linking speedup on large C++ apps (#223181)
- fix tekhex reader
- SSE4 support in gas and objdump (H.J.Lu, #223120)
- compile binutils with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 (#215514)
- fix ld --emit-relocs on ppc64 (Alan Modra, #235221)
- fix ppc32 ld segfault with -msecure-plt (Alan Modra, BZ#4267)

Thu Nov 09 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-2.el5

- fix popcnt instruction assembly and disassembly on amd64 (#214767)

Wed Oct 25 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.6-1.el5

- update to 2.17.50.0.6
  - fix for section relative linker script defined symbols in
    empty sections (#212032, BZ#3267)
  - fix handling of DW_CFA_set_loc in .eh_frame optimizations
  - fix R_PPC_{PLT,GOT{,_TLSGD,_TLSLD,_TPREL,_DTPREL}}16_HA relocation
    handling with weak undefined symbols (Alan Modra, #211094)
  - fix --cref (#212099)
  - fix --emit-relocs on ppc64 (#211991)

Tue Sep 12 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-6
```
- fix multilib conflict in /usr/include/bfd.h
```
Tue Sep 12 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-5
```
- fix efi-app-ia64 magic number (#206002, BZ#3171)
```

Tue Sep 05 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-4

- link libopcodes*.so against libbfd*.so (#202327)
- split *.a and header files into binutils-devel

Fri Aug 18 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-3

- on ppc and ppc64 increase default -z commonpagesize to 64K (#203001)

Fri Jul 28 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-2

- do not infer x86 arch implicitly based on instruction in the input
  (#200330)

Mon Jul 17 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.3-1
```
- update to 2.17.50.0.3
```

Fri Jul 14 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-8

- add support for new AMDFAM10 instructions (#198281, IT#97662)
- add -march=/-mtune= gas support on x86/x86-64
- x86/x86-64 nop insn improvements
- fix DT_GNU_HASH shift count value computation

Tue Jul 11 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-7

- add DT_GNU_HASH support (--hash-style=gnu and --hash-style=both
  ld options)

Thu Jun 29 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-4

- fix i?86 TLS GD->IE transition in executables (#196157, BZ#2513)

Mon Jun 19 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-3

- fix two places in ld that misbehaved with MALLOC_PERTURB_=N
- fix .tls_common handling in relocatable linking

Mon Jun 05 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-2
```
- fix --as-needed (Alan Modra, #193689, BZ#2721)
```

Thu Jun 01 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.2-1

- update to 2.17.50.0.2
- update from CVS to 20060601
- speed up the ELF linker by caching the result of kept section check
  (H.J. Lu)

Tue May 09 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.17.50.0.1-1
```
- update to 2.17.50.0.1
```

Fri Mar 31 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-6

- fix ld error message formatting, so that collect2 parser can
  parse it again for g++ -frepo (#187142)

Thu Mar 09 2006 Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-4
```
- fix relaxation of TLS GD to LE on PPC (#184590)
```

Fri Mar 03 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-3

- support DW_CFA_val_{offset,offset_sf,expression} in readelf/objdump

Tue Feb 28 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-2

- add MNI support on i?86/x86_64 (#183080)
- support S signal frame augmentation flag in .eh_frame,
  add .cfi_signal_frame support (#175951, PR other/26208, BZ#300)

Tue Feb 14 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.6-1

- update to 2.16.91.0.6
  - fix ppc64 --gc-sections
  - disassembler fixes for x86_64 cr/debug regs
  - fix linker search order for DT_NEEDED libs

Mon Jan 02 2006 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.5-1

- update to 2.16.91.0.5
- don't error about .toc1 references to discarded sectiosn on ppc64
  (#175944)

Wed Dec 14 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.3-2
```
- put .gnu.linkonce.d.rel.ro.* sections into relro region
```
Fri Dec 09 2005 Jesse Keating <jkeating@redhat.com>
```
- rebuilt
```

Fri Nov 11 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.3-1

- update to 2.16.91.0.3
- add .weakref support (Alexandre Oliva, #115157, #165728)

Thu Aug 18 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-4

- install-info also configure.info
- update standards.texi from gnulib (#165530)

Tue Aug 16 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-3

- update to 20050816 CVS
- better fix for ld-cdtest
- fix symbol version script parsing

Fri Jul 29 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-2

- don't complain about relocs to discarded sections in ppc32
  .got2 sections (Alan Modra, PR target/17828)

Fri Jul 22 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.2-1
```
- update to 2.16.91.0.2
```

Thu Jul 21 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.1-3

- fix buffer overflow in readelf ia64 unwind printing code
- use vsnprintf rather than vsprintf in gas diagnostics (Tavis Ormandy)
- fix ld-cdtest when CFLAGS contains -fexceptions

Wed Jul 20 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.1-2
```
- update to 20050720 CVS
```
Mon Jul 11 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.91.0.1-1
```
- update to 2.16.91.0.1 plus 20050708 CVS
```

Wed Jun 15 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.16.90.0.3-1

- update to 2.16.90.0.3
- update to 20050615 CVS
  - ppc32 secure PLT support (Alan Modra)
- further bfd/readelf robustification

Sat Jun 11 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-4
```
- further bfd robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)
```

Fri Jun 10 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-3

- further objdump and readelf robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)

Wed May 25 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-2
```
- bfd and readelf robustification (CAN-2005-1704, #158680)
```

Tue Mar 29 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2.2-1

- update to 2.15.94.0.2.2
- speed up walk_wild_section (Robert O'Callahan)

Mon Mar 07 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2-4
```
- rebuilt with GCC 4
```

Mon Feb 28 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2-3

- fix buffer overflows in readelf (#149506)
- move c++filt to binutils from gcc-c++, conflict with gcc-c++ < 4.0 (#86333)

Thu Feb 10 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.94.0.2-1

- update to 2.15.94.0.2
- fix .note.GNU-stack/PT_GNU_STACK computation in linker on ppc64 (#147296)
- fix stripping of binaries/libraries that have empty sections right before
  .dynamic section (with the same starting address; #144038)
- handle AS_NEEDED (...) in linker script INPUT/GROUP

Tue Dec 14 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-11
```
- fix a longstanding -z relro bug
```

Mon Dec 13 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-10

- avoid unnecessary gap with -z relro showing on i686 libc.so
- ppc64 --emit-relocs fix (Alan Modra)
- don't crash if STT_SECTION symbol has incorrect st_shndx (e.g. SHN_ABS,
  as created by nasm; #142181)
- don't try to make absptr LSDAs relative if they don't have relocations
  against them (Alan Modra, #141162)

Wed Oct 27 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-5.EL4
```
- fix ar xo (#104344)
```
Wed Oct 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-5
```
- fix --just-symbols on ppc64 (Alan Modra, #135498)
```

Fri Oct 15 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-4

- fix code detecting matching linkonce and single member comdat
  group sections (#133078)

Mon Oct 11 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-3

- revert Sep 09 change to make ppc L second argument e.g. for tlbie
  non-optional
- fix stripping of prelinked binaries and libraries (#133734)
- allow strings(1) on 32-bit arches to be used again with > 2GB
  files (#133555)

Mon Oct 04 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.92.0.2-2

- update to 2.15.92.0.2
- change ld's ld.so.conf parser to match ldconfig's (#129340)

Mon Sep 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-9

- avoid almost 1MB (sparse) gaps in the middle of -z relro
  libraries on x86-64 (Andreas Schwab)
- fix -z relro to make sure end of PT_GNU_RELRO segment is always
  COMMONPAGESIZE aligned

Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-8

- fix linker segfaults on input objects with SHF_LINK_ORDER with
  incorrect sh_link (H.J.Lu, Nick Clifton, #130198, BZ #290)

Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-7

- resolve all undefined ppc64 .* syms to the function bodies through
  .opd, not just those used in brach instructions (Alan Modra)

Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-6
```
- fix ppc64 ld --dotsyms (Alan Modra)
```

Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-5

- various ppc64 make check fixes when using non-dot-syms gcc (Alan Modra)
- fix --gc-sections
- on ia64 create empty .gnu.linkonce.ia64unw*.* sections for
  .gnu.linkonce.t.* function doesn't need unwind info

Mon Aug 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-4

- kill ppc64 dot symbols (Alan Modra)
- objdump -d support for objects without dot symbols
- support for overlapping ppc64 .opd entries

Mon Aug 09 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-3
```
- fix a newly introduced linker crash on x86-64
```

Sun Aug 08 2004 Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-2

- BuildRequire bison and macroise buildroot - from Steve Grubb

Fri Jul 30 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.91.0.2-1
```
- update to 2.15.91.0.2
- BuildRequire flex (#117763)
```

Wed May 19 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-7

- use lib64 instead of lib directories on ia64 if %{_lib} is
  set to lib64 by rpm

Sat May 15 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-6

- fix a bug introduced in the ++/-- rejection patch
  from 2.15.90.0.3 (Alan Modra)

Tue May 04 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-5

- fix s390{,x} .{,b,p2}align handling
- ppc/ppc64 testsuite fix

Mon May 03 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-4

- -z relro ppc/ppc64/ia64 fixes
- change x86-64 .plt symbol st_size handling to match ia32
- prettify objdump -d output

Tue Apr 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-3
```
- several SPARC fixes
```
Sun Apr 18 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-2
```
- yet another fix for .tbss handling
```
Fri Apr 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.3-1
```
- update to 2.15.90.0.3
```

Fri Mar 26 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.1.1-2

- update to 20040326 CVS
  - fix ppc64 weak .opd symbol handling (Alan Modra, #119086)
- fix .tbss handling bug introduced

Fri Mar 26 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.15.90.0.1.1-1
```
- update to 2.15.90.0.1.1
```

Sat Feb 21 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-8

- with -z now without --enable-new-dtags create DT_BIND_NOW
  dynamic entry in addition to DT_FLAGS_1 with DF_1_NOW bit set

Fri Feb 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-7
```
- fix -pie on ppc32
```

Fri Feb 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-6

- clear .plt sh_entsize on sparc32
- put whole .got into relro area with -z now -z relro

Fri Feb 13 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
```
- rebuilt
```
Thu Jan 22 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-4
```
- fix -pie on IA64
```
Mon Jan 19 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-3
```
- fix testcases on s390 and s390x
```

Fri Jan 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-2

- fix testcases on AMD64
- fix .got's sh_entsize on IA32/AMD64
- set COMMONPAGESIZE on s390/s390x
- set COMMONPAGESIZE on ppc32 (Alan Modra)

Fri Jan 16 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.8-1
```
- update to 2.14.90.0.8
```
Tue Jan 13 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-4
```
- fix -z relro on 64-bit arches
```
Mon Jan 12 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-3
```
- fix some bugs in -z relro support
```
Fri Jan 09 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-2
```
- -z relro support, reordering of RW sections
```
Fri Jan 09 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.7-1
```
- update to 2.14.90.0.7
```

Mon Nov 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-4

- fix assembly parsing of foo=(.-bar)/4 (Alan Modra)
- fix IA-64 assembly parsing of (p7) hint @pause

Tue Sep 30 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-3
```
- don't abort on some linker warnings/errors on IA-64
```
Sat Sep 20 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-2
```
- fix up merge2.s to use .p2align instead of .align
```

Sat Sep 20 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.6-1

- update to 2.14.90.0.6
- speed up string merging (Lars Knoll, Michael Matz, Alan Modra)
- speed up IA-64 local symbol handling during linking

Fri Sep 05 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-7

- avoid ld -s segfaults introduced in 2.14.90.0.5-5 (Dmitry V. Levin,

Fri Aug 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-6

- build old demangler into libiberty.a (#102268)
- SPARC .cfi* support

Tue Aug 05 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-5
```
- fix orphan section placement
```

Tue Jul 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-4

- fix ppc64 elfvsb linker tests
- some more 64-bit cleanliness fixes, give ppc64 fdesc symbols
  type and size (Alan Modra)

Tue Jul 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-3
```
- fix 64-bit unclean code in ppc-opc.c
```
Mon Jul 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-2
```
- fix 64-bit unclean code in tc-ppc.c
```
Mon Jul 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.5-1
```
- update to 2.14.90.0.5
- fix ld -r on ppc64 (Alan Modra)
```
Fri Jul 18 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-23
```
- rebuilt
```

Thu Jul 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-22

- fix elfNN_ia64_dynamic_symbol_p (Richard Henderson, #86661)
- don't access memory beyond what was allocated in readelf
  (Richard Henderson)

Thu Jul 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-21
```
- add .cfi_* support on ppc{,64} and s390{,x}
```
Tue Jul 08 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-20
```
- remove lib{bfd,opcodes}.la (#98190)
```

Mon Jul 07 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-19

- fix -pie support on amd64, s390, s390x and ppc64
- issue relocation overflow errors for s390/s390x -fpic code when
  accessing .got slots above 4096 bytes from .got start

Thu Jul 03 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-18
```
- rebuilt
```

Thu Jul 03 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-17

- fix ia64 -pie support
- require no undefined non-weak symbols in PIEs like required for normal
  binaries

Wed Jul 02 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-16

- fix readelf -d on IA-64
- build libiberty.a with -fPIC, so that it can be lined into shared
  libraries

Wed Jun 25 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-15
```
- rebuilt
```

Wed Jun 25 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-14

- added support for Intel Prescott instructions
- fix hint@pause for ia64
- add workaround for LTP sillyness (#97934)

Wed Jun 18 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-13

- update CFI stuff to 2003-06-18
- make sure .eh_frame is aligned to 8 bytes on 64-bit arches,
  remove padding within one .eh_frame section

Tue Jun 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-12
```
- rebuilt
```
Tue Jun 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-11
```
- one more fix for the same patch
```
Tue Jun 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-10
```
- fix previous patch
```

Mon Jun 16 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-9

- ensure R_PPC64_{RELATIVE,ADDR64} have *r_offset == r_addend
  and the other relocs have *r_offset == 0

Tue Jun 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-8

- remove some unnecessary provides in ppc64 linker script
  which were causing e.g. empty .ctors/.dtors section creation

Fri Jun 06 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-7

- some CFI updates/fixes
- don't create dynamic relocations against symbols defined in PIE
  exported from its .dynsym

Wed Jun 04 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-6
```
- update gas to 20030604
- PT_GNU_STACK support
```
Mon Jun 02 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-5
```
- buildrequire gettext (#91838)
```
Sat May 31 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-4
```
- fix shared libraries with >= 8192 .plt slots on ppc32
```
Thu May 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-3
```
- rebuilt
```

Thu May 29 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-2

- rename ld --dynamic option to --pic-executable or --pie
- fix ld --help output
- document --pie/--pic-executable in ld.info and ld.1

Wed May 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.4-1

- update to 2.14.90.0.4-1
- gas CFI updates (Richard Henderson)
- dynamic executables (Ulrich Drepper)

Tue May 20 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.2-2

- fix ELF visibility handling
- tidy plt entries on IA-32, ppc and ppc64

Mon May 19 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.14.90.0.2-1
```
- update to 2.14.90.0.2-1
```
Tue May 13 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-8
```
- fix bfd_elf_hash on 64-bit arches (Andrew Haley)
```
Wed Apr 30 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-7
```
- rebuilt
```

Mon Apr 14 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-6

- optimize DW_CFA_advance_loc4 in gas even if there is 'z' augmentation
  with size 0 in FDE

Fri Apr 11 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-5
```
- fix SPARC build
```

Thu Apr 03 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-4

- fix ppc32 plt reference counting
- don't include /usr/lib/debug in the non-debuginfo package
  (#87729)

Mon Mar 31 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-3

- make elf64ppc target native extra on ppc and elf32ppc native extra
  on ppc64.

Fri Mar 28 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-2
```
- fix TLS on IA-64 with ld relaxation
```
Sat Mar 22 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.20-1
```
- update to 2.13.90.0.20
```
Mon Feb 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-9
```
- rebuilt
```

Mon Feb 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-8

- don't strip binaries in %install, so that there is non-empty
  debuginfo

Mon Feb 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-7
```
- don't optimize .eh_frame during ld -r
```

Thu Feb 13 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-6

- don't clear elf_link_hash_flags in the .symver patch
- only use TC_FORCE_RELOCATION in s390's TC_FORCE_RELOCATION_SUB_SAME
  (Alan Modra)

Mon Feb 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-5

- fix the previous .symver change
- remove libbfd.so and libopcodes.so symlinks, so that other packages
  link statically, not dynamically against libbfd and libopcodes
  whose ABI is everything but stable

Mon Feb 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-4

- do .symver x, x@FOO handling earlier
- support .file and .loc on s390*

Mon Feb 10 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-3

- handle .symver x, x@FOO in ld such that relocs against x become
  dynamic relocations against x@FOO (#83325)
- two PPC64 TLS patches (Alan Modra)

Sun Feb 09 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-2

- fix SEARCH_DIR on x86_64/s390x
- fix Alpha --relax
- create DT_RELA{,SZ,ENT} on s390 even if there is just .rela.plt
  and no .rela.dyn section
- support IA-32 on IA-64 (#83752)
- .eh_frame_hdr fix (Andreas Schwab)

Thu Feb 06 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.18-1
```
- update to 2.13.90.0.18 + 20030121->20030206 CVS diff
```

Tue Feb 04 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-8

- alpha TLS fixes
- use .debug_line directory table to make the section tiny bit smaller
- libtool fix from Jens Petersen

Sun Feb 02 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-7
```
- sparc32 TLS
```
Fri Jan 24 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-6
```
- s390{,x} TLS and two other mainframe patches
```

Fri Jan 17 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-5

- fix IA-64 TLS IE in shared libs
- .{preinit,init,fini}_array compat hack from Alexandre Oliva

Thu Jan 16 2003 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-4

- IA-64 TLS fixes
- fix .plt sh_entsize on Alpha
- build with %_smp_mflags

Sat Nov 30 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-3
```
- fix strip on TLS binaries and libraries
```
Fri Nov 29 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-2
```
- fix IA-64 ld bootstrap
```
Thu Nov 28 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.16-1
```
- update to 2.13.90.0.16
- STT_TLS SHN_UNDEF fix
```

Wed Nov 27 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-4

- pad .rodata.cstNN sections at the end if they aren't sized to multiple
  of sh_entsize
- temporary patch to make .eh_frame and .gcc_except_table sections
  readonly if possible (should be removed when AUTO_PLACE is implemented)
- fix .PPC.EMB.apuinfo section flags

Wed Oct 23 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-3

- fix names and content of alpha non-alloced .rela.* sections (#76583)
- delete unpackaged files from the buildroot

Tue Oct 15 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-2
```
- enable s390x resp. s390 emulation in linker too
```

Mon Oct 14 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.10-1

- update to 2.13.90.0.10
- add a bi-arch patch for sparc/s390/x86_64
- add --enable-64-bit-bfd on sparc, s390 and ppc

Thu Oct 10 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.4-3
```
- fix combreloc testcase
```

Thu Oct 10 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.4-2

- fix orphan .rel and .rela section placement with -z combreloc (Alan Modra)
- skip incompatible linker scripts when searching for libraries

Tue Oct 01 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.4-1

- update to 2.13.90.0.4
- x86-64 TLS support
- some IA-32 TLS fixes
- some backported patches from trunk
- include opcodes, ld, gas and bfd l10n too

Thu Sep 19 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.2-3

- allow addends for IA-32 TLS @tpoff, @ntpoff and @dtpoff
- clear memory at *r_offset of dynamic relocs on PPC
- avoid ld crash if accessing non-local symbols through LE relocs
- new IA-32 TLS relocs, bugfixes and testcases
- use brl insn on IA-64 (Richard Henderson)
- fix R_IA64_PCREL21{M,F} handling (Richard Henderson)
- build in separate builddir, so that gasp tests don't fail
- include localization

Thu Aug 08 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.2-2
```
- fix R_386_TPOFF32 addends (#70824)
```

Sat Aug 03 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.13.90.0.2-1

- update to 2.13.90.0.2
  - fix ld TLS assertion failure (#70084)
  - fix readelf --debug-dump= handling to match man page and --help
    (#68997)
- fix _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE gas handling (#70241)

Wed Jul 24 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.12.90.0.15-1

- update to 2.12.90.0.15
- TLS .tbss fix
- don't use rpm %configure macro, it is broken too often (#69366)

Thu May 30 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.12.90.0.9-1

- update to 2.12.90.0.9
  - TLS support
- remove gasp.info from %post/%preun (#65400)

Mon Apr 29 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.12.90.0.7-1
```
- update to 2.12.90.0.7
- run make check
```

Mon Apr 29 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-12

- fix .hidden handling on SPARC (Richard Henderson)
- don't crash when linking -shared non-pic code with SHF_MERGE
- fix .eh_frame_hdr for DW_EH_PE_aligned
- correctly adjust DW_EH_PE_pcrel encoded personalities in CIEs

Fri Apr 05 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-11

- don't emit dynamic R_SPARC_DISP* relocs against STV_HIDDEN symbols
  into shared libraries

Thu Mar 21 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-10
```
- don't merge IA-64 unwind info sections together during ld -r
```
Mon Mar 11 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-9
```
- fix DATA_SEGMENT_ALIGN on ia64/alpha/sparc/sparc64
```
Fri Mar 08 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-8
```
- don't crash on SHN_UNDEF local dynsyms (Andrew MacLeod)
```
Thu Mar 07 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-7
```
- fix bfd configury bug (Alan Modra)
```

Tue Mar 05 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-6

- don't copy visibility when equating symbols
- fix alpha .text/.data with .previous directive bug

Tue Mar 05 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-5

- fix SHF_MERGE crash with --gc-sections (#60369)
- C++ symbol versioning patch

Fri Feb 22 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-4

- add DW_EH_PE_absptr -> DW_EH_PE_pcrel optimization for shared libs,
  if DW_EH_PE_absptr cannot be converted that way, don't build the
  .eh_frame_hdr search table

Fri Feb 15 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-3
```
- fix ld -N broken by last patch
```

Tue Feb 12 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-2

- trade one saved runtime page for data segment (=almost always not shared)
  for up to one page of disk space where possible

Fri Feb 08 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.93.0.2-1

- update to 2.11.93.0.2
- use %{ix86} instead of i386 for -z combreloc default (#59086)

Thu Jan 31 2002 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-10

- don't create SHN_UNDEF STB_WEAK symbols unless there are any relocations
  against them

Wed Jan 30 2002 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-9.1
```
- rebuild (fix ia64 miscompilation)
```
Wed Jan 09 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>
```
- automated rebuild
```
Fri Dec 28 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-8
```
- two further .eh_frame patch fixes
```

Wed Dec 19 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-7

- as ld is currently not able to shrink input sections to zero size
  during discard_info, build a fake minimal CIE in that case
- update elf-strtab patch to what was commited

Mon Dec 17 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-6

- one more .eh_frame patch fix
- fix alpha .eh_frame handling
- optimize elf-strtab finalize

Sat Dec 15 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-5
```
- yet another fix for the .eh_frame patch
```
Fri Dec 14 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-4
```
- Alan Modra's patch to avoid crash if there is no dynobj
```

Thu Dec 13 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-3

- H.J.'s patch to avoid crash if input files are not ELF
- don't crash if a SHF_MERGE for some reason could not be merged
- fix objcopy/strip to preserve SHF_MERGE sh_entsize
- optimize .eh_frame sections, add PT_GNU_EH_FRAME support
- support anonymous version tags in version script

Tue Nov 27 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-2
```
- fix IA-64 SHF_MERGE handling
```

Tue Nov 27 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.12-1

- update to 2.11.92.0.12
  - optimize .dynstr and .shstrtab sections (#55524)
  - fix ld.1 glitch (#55459)
- turn relocs against SHF_MERGE local symbols with zero addend
  into STT_SECTION + addend
- remove man pages for programs not included (nlmconv, windres, dlltool;
  - add BuildRequires for texinfo

Thu Oct 25 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.7-2
```
- duh, fix strings on bfd objects (#55084)
```

Sat Oct 20 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.7-1

- update to 2.11.92.0.7
- remove .rel{,a}.dyn from output if it is empty

Thu Oct 11 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.5-2

- fix strings patch
- use getc_unlocked in strings to speed it up by 50% on large files

Wed Oct 10 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.92.0.5-1

- update to 2.11.92.0.5
  - binutils localization (#45148)
  - fix typo in REPORT_BUGS_TO (#54325)
- support files bigger than 2GB in strings (#54406)

Wed Sep 26 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-12

- on IA-64, don't mix R_IA64_IPLTLSB relocs with non-PLT relocs in
  .rela.dyn section.

Tue Sep 25 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-11

- add iplt support for IA-64 (Richard Henderson)
- switch to new section flags for SHF_MERGE and SHF_STRINGS, put
  in compatibility code
- "s" section flag for small data sections on IA-64 and Alpha
  (Richard Henderson)
- fix sparc64 .plt[32768+] handling
- don't emit .rela.stab on sparc

Mon Sep 10 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-10
```
- fix SHF_MERGE on Sparc
```
Fri Aug 31 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-9
```
- on Alpha, copy *r_offset to R_ALPHA_RELATIVE's r_addend
```

Thu Aug 30 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-8

- on IA-64, put crtend{,S}.o's .IA_64.unwind section last in
  .IA_64.unwind output section (for compatibility with 7.1 eh)

Fri Aug 24 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-7

- put RELATIVE relocs first, not last
- enable -z combreloc by default on IA-{32,64}, Alpha, Sparc*

Thu Aug 23 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-6

- support for -z combreloc
- remove .dynamic patch, -z combreloc patch does this better
- set STT_FUNC default symbol sizes in .endp directive on IA-64

Mon Jul 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-5
```
- fix last patch (H.J.Lu)
```
Fri Jul 13 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> 2.11.90.0.8-4
```
- fix placing of orphan sections
```
Sat Jun 23 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- fix SHF_MERGE support on Alpha
```

Fri Jun 08 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

- 2.11.90.0.8
  - some SHF_MERGE suport fixes
- don't build with tooldir /usrusr instead of /usr (#40937)
- reserve few .dynamic entries for prelinking

Mon Apr 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- 2.11.90.0.5
  - SHF_MERGE support
```

Tue Apr 03 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

- 2.11.90.0.4
  - fix uleb128 support, so that CVS gcc bootstraps
  - some ia64 fixes

Mon Mar 19 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- add -Bgroup support from Ulrich Drepper
```
Fri Mar 09 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- hack - add elf_i386_glibc21 emulation
```
Fri Feb 16 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- 2.10.91.0.2
```

Fri Feb 09 2001 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

- 2.10.1.0.7
- remove ExcludeArch ia64
- back out the -oformat, -omagic and -output change for now

Fri Dec 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- Prereq /sbin/install-info
```
Tue Nov 21 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- 2.10.1.0.2
```
Tue Nov 21 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- add one more alpha patch
```

Wed Nov 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>

- fix alpha visibility as problem
- add support for Ultra-III

Fri Sep 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- and one more alpha patch
```
Fri Sep 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- two sparc patches
```
Mon Jul 24 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- 2.10.0.18
```
Mon Jul 10 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- 2.10.0.12
```
Mon Jun 26 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- 2.10.0.9
```
Thu Jun 15 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- fix ld -r
```
Mon Jun 05 2000 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
```
- 2.9.5.0.46
- use _mandir/_infodir/_lib
```
Mon May 08 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
```
- 2.9.5.0.41
```
Wed Apr 12 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
```
- 2.9.5.0.34
```
Wed Mar 22 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
```
- 2.9.5.0.31
```

Fri Feb 04 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- man pages are compressed
- apply kingdon's patch from #5031

Wed Jan 19 2000 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

- Permit package to be built with a prefix other than /usr.

Thu Jan 13 2000 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- add pacth from hjl to fix the versioning problems in ld

Tue Jan 11 2000 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>

- Add sparc patches from Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
- Add URL:

Tue Dec 14 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
```
- 2.9.5.0.22
```
Wed Nov 24 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
```
- 2.9.5.0.19
```
Sun Oct 24 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.com>
```
- 2.9.5.0.16
```

Mon Sep 06 1999 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>

- make shared non-pic libraries work on sparc with glibc 2.1.

Fri Aug 27 1999 Jim Kingdon

- No source/spec changes, just rebuilding with egcs-1.1.2-18 because
  the older egcs was miscompling gprof.

Mon Apr 26 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- back out very *stupid* sparc patch done by HJLu. People, keep out of
  things you don't understand.
- add alpha relax patch from rth

Mon Apr 05 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- version  2.9.1.0.23
- patch to make texinfo documentation compile
- auto rebuild in the new build environment (release 2)

Tue Feb 23 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.1.0.21
- merged with UltraPenguin
```

Mon Jan 04 1999 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- added ARM patch from philb
- version 2.9.1.0.19a
- added a patch to allow arm* arch to be identified as an ARM

Thu Oct 01 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.1.0.14.
```
Sat Sep 19 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.1.0.13.
```
Wed Sep 09 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.1.0.12
```
Thu Jul 02 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.1.0.7.
```
Wed Jun 03 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.1.0.6.
```

Tue Jun 02 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

- added patch from rth to get right offsets for sections in relocateable
  objects on sparc32

Thu May 07 1998 Prospector System <bugs@redhat.com>
```
- translations modified for de, fr, tr
```

Tue May 05 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- version 2.9.1.0.4 is out; even more, it is public !

Tue May 05 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.1.0.3.
```
Mon Apr 20 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
```
- updated to 2.9.0.3
```
Tue Apr 14 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
```
- upgraded to 2.9.0.2
```

Sun Apr 05 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- updated to 2.8.1.0.29 (HJ warned me that this thing is a moving target...
  :-)
- "fixed" the damn make install command so that all tools get installed

Thu Apr 02 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- upgraded again to 2.8.1.0.28 (at least on alpha now egcs will compile)
- added info packages handling

Tue Mar 10 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>
```
- upgraded to 2.8.1.0.23
```

Mon Mar 02 1998 Cristian Gafton <gafton@redhat.com>

- updated to 2.8.1.0.15 (required to compile the newer glibc)
- all patches are obsoleted now

Wed Oct 22 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

- added 2.8.1.0.1 patch from hj
- added patch for alpha palcode form rth