* 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
* Add support for Intel FRED, LKGS and AMX-COMPLEX instructions.
* A new .insn directive is recognized by x86 gas.
* Add SME2 support to the AArch64 port.
* 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.
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- Update to version 2.40:
* Objdump has a new command line option --show-all-symbols which will make it
display all symbols that match a given address when disassembling. (Normally
only the first symbol that matches an address is shown).
* Add --enable-colored-disassembly configure time option to enable colored
disassembly output by default, if the output device is a terminal. Note,
this configure option is disabled by default.
* DCO signed contributions are now accepted.
* objcopy --decompress-debug-sections now supports zstd compressed debug
sections. The new option --compress-debug-sections=zstd compresses debug
sections with zstd.
* addr2line and objdump --dwarf now support zstd compressed debug sections.
* The dlltool program now accepts --deterministic-libraries and
--non-deterministic-libraries as command line options to control whether or
not it generates deterministic output libraries. If neither of these options
are used the default is whatever was set when the binutils were configured.
* readelf and objdump now have a newly added option --sframe which dumps the
SFrame section.
* Add support for Intel RAO-INT instructions.
* Add support for Intel AVX-NE-CONVERT instructions.
* Add support for Intel MSRLIST instructions.
* Add support for Intel WRMSRNS instructions.
* Add support for Intel CMPccXADD instructions.
* Add support for Intel AVX-VNNI-INT8 instructions.
* Add support for Intel AVX-IFMA instructions.
* Add support for Intel PREFETCHI instructions.
* Add support for Intel AMX-FP16 instructions.
* gas now supports --compress-debug-sections=zstd to compress
debug sections with zstd.
* Add --enable-default-compressed-debug-sections-algorithm={zlib,zstd}
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- Add binutils-maxpagesize.diff for a problem on old code
streams, where we would generate too large binaries.
- This fixes these CVEs relative to 2.37:
[bsc#1188374, bsc#1185597] aka (GCC) PR99935 aka CVE-2021-3648
[bsc#1193929] aka PR28694 aka CVE-2021-45078
[bsc#1194783] aka (GCC) PR98886 aka CVE-2021-46195
[bsc#1197592] aka (GCC) PR105039 aka CVE-2022-27943
[bsc#1202966] aka PR29289 aka CVE-2022-38126
[bsc#1202967] aka PR29290 aka CVE-2022-38127
[bsc#1202969] aka CVE-2021-3826
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of not ignoring the in-section content of to be relocated
fields on x86-64, even though that's a RELA architecture.
Compatibility with buggy object files generated by old tools.
[bsc#1198422]
(forward port from SLE)
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- Update to binutils 2.39:
* The ELF linker will now generate a warning message if the stack is made
executable. Similarly it will warn if the output binary contains a
segment with all three of the read, write and execute permission
bits set. These warnings are intended to help developers identify
programs which might be vulnerable to attack via these executable
memory regions.
The warnings are enabled by default but can be disabled via a command
line option. It is also possible to build a linker with the warnings
disabled, should that be necessary.
* The ELF linker now supports a --package-metadata option that allows
embedding a JSON payload in accordance to the Package Metadata
specification.
* In linker scripts it is now possible to use TYPE=<type> in an output
section description to set the section type value.
* The objdump program now supports coloured/colored syntax
highlighting of its disassembler output for some architectures.
(Currently: AVR, RiscV, s390, x86, x86_64).
* The nm program now supports a --no-weak/-W option to make it ignore
weak symbols.
* The readelf and objdump programs now support a -wE option to prevent
them from attempting to access debuginfod servers when following
links.
* The objcopy program's --weaken, --weaken-symbol, and
--weaken-symbols options now works with unique symbols as well.
- Rebase binutils-compat-old-behaviour.diff, binutils-revert-hlasm-insns.diff,
binutils-revert-plt32-in-branches.diff and remove binutils-2.38-branch.diff.gz.
- For now use --disable-gprofng.
- Includes fixes for these CVEs:
bnc#1142579 aka CVE-2019-1010204 aka PR23765
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- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
the SUSE_ASNEEDED variable.
- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
the SUSE_ASNEEDED variable.
- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
the SUSE_ASNEEDED variable.
- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
the SUSE_ASNEEDED variable.
- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
the SUSE_ASNEEDED variable.
- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
the SUSE_ASNEEDED variable.
- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
the SUSE_ASNEEDED variable.
- Add usage of a SUSE_ZNOW environment variable which allows switching
on "-z now" by default using "export SUSE_ZNOW=1", similar to
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- Update to binutils 2.38:
* elfedit: Add --output-abiversion option to update ABIVERSION.
* Add support for the LoongArch instruction set.
* Tools which display symbols or strings (readelf, strings, nm, objdump)
have a new command line option which controls how unicode characters are
handled. By default they are treated as normal for the tool. Using
--unicode=locale will display them according to the current locale.
Using --unicode=hex will display them as hex byte values, whilst
--unicode=escape will display them as escape sequences. In addition
using --unicode=highlight will display them as unicode escape sequences
highlighted in red (if supported by the output device).
* readelf -r dumps RELR relative relocations now.
* Support for efi-app-aarch64, efi-rtdrv-aarch64 and efi-bsdrv-aarch64 has been
added to objcopy in order to enable UEFI development using binutils.
* ar: Add --thin for creating thin archives. -T is a deprecated alias without
diagnostics. In many ar implementations -T has a different meaning, as
specified by X/Open System Interface.
* Add support for AArch64 system registers that were missing in previous
releases.
* Add support for the LoongArch instruction set.
* Add a command-line option, -muse-unaligned-vector-move, for x86 target
to encode aligned vector move as unaligned vector move.
* Add support for Cortex-R52+ for Arm.
* Add support for Cortex-A510, Cortex-A710, Cortex-X2 for AArch64.
* Add support for Cortex-A710 for Arm.
* Add support for Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) for AArch64.
* The --multibyte-handling=[allow|warn|warn-sym-only] option tells the
assembler what to when it encoutners multibyte characters in the input. The
default is to allow them. Setting the option to "warn" will generate a
warning message whenever any multibyte character is encountered. Using the
There are no new CVEs fixed in the release.
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- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
- use fdupes on datadir
- remove RPM_BUILD_ROOT usage and other cleanups
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- Update to binutils 2.37:
* The GNU Binutils sources now requires a C99 compiler and library to
build.
* Support for the arm-symbianelf format has been removed.
* Support for Realm Management Extension (RME) for AArch64 has been
added.
* A new linker option '-z report-relative-reloc' for x86 ELF targets
has been added to report dynamic relative relocations.
* A new linker option '-z start-stop-gc' has been added to disable
special treatment of __start_*/__stop_* references when
--gc-sections.
* A new linker options '-Bno-symbolic' has been added which will
cancel the '-Bsymbolic' and '-Bsymbolic-functions' options.
* The readelf tool has a new command line option which can be used to
specify how the numeric values of symbols are reported.
--sym-base=0|8|10|16 tells readelf to display the values in base 8,
base 10 or base 16. A sym base of 0 represents the default action
of displaying values under 10000 in base 10 and values above that in
base 16.
* A new format has been added to the nm program. Specifying
'--format=just-symbols' (or just using -j) will tell the program to
only display symbol names and nothing else.
* A new command line option '--keep-section-symbols' has been added to
objcopy and strip. This stops the removal of unused section symbols
when the file is copied. Removing these symbols saves space, but
sometimes they are needed by other tools.
* The '--weaken', '--weaken-symbol' and '--weaken-symbols' options
supported by objcopy now make undefined symbols weak on targets that
support weak symbols.
* Readelf and objdump can now display and use the contents of .debug_sup
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