PR#573: Issue 439 - Binutils 2.34 - fedora-docs/release-notes

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#573 Issue 439 - Binutils 2.34

Closed 3 years ago by pbokoc. Opened 3 years ago by roypen.

fedora-docs/ roypen/release-notes iss439 into f33

Binutils 2.34 -update

Łukasz Piekarski • 3 years ago

35de898

Binutils 2.34

Łukasz Piekarski • 3 years ago

8e31951

modules/release-notes/pages/developers/Development_Binutils.adoc

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		`[[sect-binutils]]`
		`- = GNU Binutils`
		`+`
		`+ = GNU Binutils 2.34`
		`+`
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		`+ Fedora 33 comes with GNU Binutils based on 2.34 release. This release brings a lot of bug fixes, improvements to the linker and assembler.`
		`+`
		`+ == New Features:`
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		`+`
		`+ === The disassembler`
		`+`
		`+ The disassembler (objdump --disassemble) now has an option to generate ascii art thats show the arcs between that start and end points of control flow instructions.`
		`+`
		`+`
		`+ === Debuginfod support`
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		`+ The binutils tools now have support for debuginfod. Debuginfod is a HTTP service for distributing ELF/DWARF debugging information as well as source code. The tools can now connect to debuginfod servers in order to download debug information about the files that they are processing.`
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		`+ === ELF format support`
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		`+ The assembler and linker now support the generation of ELF format files for the Z80 architecture.`
		`+`
		`+`
		`+ See the link:https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2020-02/msg00000.html[upstream release announcement] for more detailed information about this release.`

roypen commented 3 years ago

Fixes #439

rebased onto 8e31951

3 years ago

pbokoc commented 3 years ago

I don't know what exactly happened here but the PR shows up as "empty", as if the commits were already in upstream/f33 - but they aren't. It's not a big deal though, I still found them in your fork, so I'll grab them as a patch and apply them locally.