3 Changes since version 2.3:
5 * New linker code, by Steve Chamberlain and Ian Taylor. For a.out and ecoff
6 formats (so far), this should result in considerable savings in time
7 and memory used while linking; slightly poorer performance than
8 before for formats not converted yet.
12 * Command-line parsing is no longer done with flex. This means
13 oddball characters in filenames won't get treated as argument
16 * HP-PA ELF support, by Jeff Law. (No SOM support yet.)
18 * PowerPC and RS/6000 support, by Ian Taylor.
20 * Mach i386 support, by David Mackenzie.
22 Changes since version 2.2:
24 * Weak symbols are now supported.
26 * ELF support has been added. The linker has been bootstrapped on
29 * Alpha OSF/1 support has been added (non dynamic linking only).
31 Changes since version 2.1:
33 * The `bfd' library has been updated to reduce a.out-format string
34 table size. The effect of this is that files linked from many input
35 files with duplicate symbols (`-g' debugging records, or identical
36 static symbols) should be much smaller.
38 Changes since version 2.0:
40 * The ld -ySYMBOL flag (to trace references to SYMBOL) is now implemented.
42 * There is now support for writing ECOFF files, so ld and the
43 other utilities should work on Risc/Ultrix and Irix.