This issue tracks the release note for the following Fedora Change:
Binutils 2.31 owned by @nickc
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[0] You can do that by asking the change owner listed on the wiki page; alternatively you can infer it by checking the tracker bug (linked in Wiki) in Bugzilla and looking at its status; see bug comments for details. Ask someone on the mailing list or on IRC if you're not sure. [1] In #fedora-docs on FreeNode (UTC+1 timezone, online mostly during the day on weekdays), or pbokoc @redhat.com if you can't get a hold of me on IRC.
New and exciting features to be found in binutils 2.31:
The x86 assembler now supports a -O2/-Os command line option, which selects between fast, but less space efficient NOP sequences, or slower, smaller sequences.
The linker now enables the -z separate-code option by default. This can increase the size of executables, but it helps makes them safer by allowing read-only parts of the program to be placed into read-only regions of memory.
The "ar" program (archive manager) now supports an "O" modifier which will display the offsets of each archive member when the "t" option is used.
The gold linker now has support for Intel's Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) and Shadow Stack enhancements.
Plus lots of bug fixing of course!
Cheers Nick
Hi Petr,
Please could you turn a comment into a release note ? This is for the Fedora Binutils 2.31 change:
https://pagure.io/fedora-docs/release-notes/issue/187
Thanks.
Hi Nick, sure thing - it's still early for F29, release notes but when we start putting them together we'll definitely use your comment. Thanks for providing the information.
Added in #241.
Metadata Update from @pbokoc: - Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
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