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shield Recommended update for binutils
SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP1-2016-1152

GNU Binutils was updated to version 2.26.1, which brings several fixes and enhancements: - Add -mrelax-relocations on x86 but keep it disabled on old products. - Add --fix-stm32l4xx-629360 to the ARM linker to enable a link-time workaround for a bug in the bus matrix / memory controller for some of the STM32 Cortex-M4 based products (STM32L4xx). - Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,ld} to decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default. - Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. - Experimental support for linker garbage collection (--gc-sections) has been enabled for COFF and PE based targets. - New command line option for ELF targets to compress DWARF debug sections, --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi]. - New command line option, --orphan-handling=[place|warn|error|discard], to adjust how orphan sections are handled. The default is 'place' which gives the current behavior, 'warn' and 'error' issue a warning or error respectively when orphan sections are found, and 'discard' will discard all orphan sections. - Add support for LLVM plugin. - Add --print-memory-usage option to report memory blocks usage. - Add --require-defined option, it's like --undefined except the new symbol must be defined by the end of the link. - Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,gas} to decide whether DWARF debug sections should be compressed by default. - Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. Remove assembler support for Argonaut RISC architectures. - Add option to objcopy to insert new symbols into a file: --add-symbol <name>=[<section>:]<value>[,<flags>] - Add support for the ARC EM/HS, and ARC600/700 architectures. - Extend objcopy --compress-debug-sections option to support --compress-debug-sections=[none|zlib|zlib-gnu|zlib-gabi] for ELF targets. - Add --update-section option to objcopy. - Add --output-separator option to strings. - Fix internal error when applying TLSDESC relocations with no TLS segment - Fix wrong insn type for troo insn. - Change default common-page-size to 64K on aarch64.

  • Release Date
    Aug 4 2016
  • References
    Bugzilla: 985642, 970239
  • Type
    recommended
  • Severity
    low

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