Rotate GDB main ChangeLog for 2017

[external/binutils.git] / ld / ld.texinfo

diff --git a/ld/ld.texinfo b/ld/ld.texinfo
index 698d366..17503eb 100644 (file)
--- a/ld/ld.texinfo
+++ b/ld/ld.texinfo
@@ -1558,6 +1558,18 @@ default behaviour (of not listing the sections that are removed) can
 be restored by specifying @samp{--no-print-gc-sections} on the command
 line.
 
+@kindex --gc-keep-exported
+@cindex garbage collection
+@item --gc-keep-exported
+When @samp{--gc-sections} is enabled, this option prevents garbage
+collection of unused input sections that contain global symbols having
+default or protected visibility.  This option is intended to be used for
+executables where unreferenced sections would otherwise be garbage
+collected regardless of the external visibility of contained symbols.
+Note that this option has no effect when linking shared objects since
+it is already the default behaviour.  This option is only supported for
+ELF format targets.
+
 @kindex --print-output-format
 @cindex output format
 @item --print-output-format
@@ -1865,6 +1877,16 @@ specifies the first set of directories to search.  The
 either by specifying a list of names separated by colons, or by
 appearing multiple times.
 
+The tokens @var{$ORIGIN} and @var{$LIB} can appear in these search
+directories.  They will be replaced by the full path to the directory
+containing the program or shared object in the case of @var{$ORIGIN}
+and either @samp{lib} - for 32-bit binaries - or @samp{lib64} - for
+64-bit binaries - in the case of @var{$LIB}.
+
+The alternative form of these tokens - @var{$@{ORIGIN@}} and
+@var{$@{LIB@}} can also be used.  The token @var{$PLATFORM} is not
+supported.
+
 This option should be used with caution as it overrides the search path
 that may have been hard compiled into a shared library. In such a case it
 is possible to use unintentionally a different search path than the
@@ -5349,6 +5371,9 @@ ABI.
 @item @code{PT_PHDR} (6)
 Indicates a segment where the program headers may be found.
 
+@item @code{PT_TLS} (7)
+Indicates a segment containing thread local storage.
+
 @item @var{expression}
 An expression giving the numeric type of the program header.  This may
 be used for types not defined above.