x86: Add -O[2|s] assembler command-line options

[external/binutils.git] / gas / NEWS

diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
index 08807f1..8a9d3a2 100644 (file)
--- a/gas/NEWS
+++ b/gas/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,40 @@
 -*- text -*-
+
+* Add -O[2|s] command-line options to x86 assembler to enable alternate
+  shorter instruction encoding.
+
+* Add support for .nop directive.  It is currently supported only for
+  x86 targets.
+
+Changes in 2.30:
+
+* Add support for loaction views in DWARF debug line information.
+
+Changes in 2.29:
+
+* Add support for ELF SHF_GNU_MBIND.
+
+* Add support for the WebAssembly file format and wasm32 ELF conversion.
+
+* PowerPC gas now checks that the correct register class is used in
+  instructions.  For instance, "addi %f4,%cr3,%r31" warns three times
+  that the registers are invalid.
+
+* Add support for the Texas Instruments PRU processor.
+
+* Support for the ARMv8-R architecture and Cortex-R52 processor has been
+  added to the ARM port.
+
+Changes in 2.28:
+
+* Add support for the RISC-V architecture.
+
+* Add support for the ARM Cortex-M23 and Cortex-M33 processors.
+
+Changes in 2.27:
+
+* Default to --enable-compressed-debug-sections=gas for Linux/x86 targets.
+
 * Add --no-pad-sections to stop the assembler from padding the end of output
   sections up to their alignment boundary.
 
@@ -32,6 +68,9 @@
 
 * Add assembly-time relaxation option for ARC cpus.
 
+* Add --with-cpu=TYPE configure option for ARC gas.  This allows the default
+  cpu type to be adjusted at configure time.
+
 Changes in 2.26:
 
 * Add a configure option --enable-compressed-debug-sections={all,gas} to
@@ -687,7 +726,7 @@ Changes in 1.93.01:
   of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed.
 
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