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- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:21:53 +0930
- Subject: powerpc news
Applying mainline.
binutils/ChangeLog
* NEWS: Mention new powerpc ld support.
Index: binutils/NEWS
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RCS file: /cvs/src/src/binutils/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.52
diff -u -p -r1.52 NEWS
--- binutils/NEWS 23 May 2005 17:45:42 -0000 1.52
+++ binutils/NEWS 6 Jun 2005 06:31:28 -0000
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
-*- text -*-
+* powerpc-linux ld now supports a variant form of PLT and GOT for the security
+ conscious. This form will automatically be chosen when ld detects that all
+ code in regular object files was generated by gcc -msecure-plt. The old PLT
+ and GOT may be forced by a new ld option, --bss-plt.
+
* Add "-i/--inlines" to addr2line to print enclosing scope information
for inlined function chains, back to first non-inlined function.
@@ -13,7 +18,7 @@
Changes in 2.16:
-* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section group.
+* Add "-g/--section-groups" to readelf to display section groups.
* objcopy recognizes two new options --strip-unneeded-symbol and
--strip-unneeded-symbols, namely for use together with the wildcard
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre