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GNU Binutils 2.41 release

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 30, 2023

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Hi Everyone,

We are pleased to announce that version 2.41 of the GNU Binutils project

sources have been released and are now available for download at:

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils

https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/

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As an experiment these tarballs were made with the new "-r "

option supported by the src-release.sh script. This attempts to make

reproducible tarballs by sorting the files and passing the

"--mtime=" option to tar. The date used for these tarballs was

obtained by running:

git log -1 --format=%cd --date=format:%F bfd/version.m4

This release contains numerous bug fixes, and also the

following new features:

In the assembler:

* Add support for Intel FRED instructions.

* Add support for Intel LKGS instructions.

* Add support for Intel AMX-COMPLEX instructions.

* Add SME2 support to the AArch64 port.

* A new .insn directive is recognized by x86 gas.

* Add support for LoongArch LSX instructions.

* Add support for LoongArch LASX instructions.

* Add support for LoongArch LVZ instructions.

* Add support for LoongArch LBT instructions.

* Initial LoongArch support for linker relaxation has been added.

* Deprecate the LoongArch register aliases $v0, $v1, $x, $fv0 and $fv1.

In the linker:

* The linker now accepts a command line option of --remap-inputs

  <PATTERN>=<FILE> to relace any input file that matches <PATTERN> with

  <FILE>.  In addition the option --remap-inputs-file=<FILE> can be used to

  specify a file containing any number of these remapping directives.

* The linker command line option --print-map-locals can be used to include

  local symbols in a linker map.  (ELF targets only).

* For most ELF based targets, if the --enable-linker-version option is used

  then the version of the linker will be inserted as a string into the 

.comment

  section.

* The linker script syntax has a new command for output sections: ASCIZ 

"string"

  This will insert a zero-terminated string at the current location.

* Add command-line option, -z nosectionheader, to omit ELF section

  header.

In the other binary tools:

* The MIPS port now supports the Sony Interactive Entertainment Allegrex

  processor, used with the PlayStation Portable, which implements the MIPS

  II ISA along with a single-precision FPU and a few implementation-specific

  integer instructions.

* Objdump's --private option can now be used on PE format files to display 

the

  fields in the file header and section headers.

* New versioned release of libsframe: libsframe.so.1.  This release 

introduces

  versioned symbols with version node name LIBSFRAME_1.0.  This release also

  updates the ABI in an incompatible way: this includes removal of

  sframe_get_funcdesc_with_addr API, change in the behavior of

  sframe_fre_get_ra_offset and sframe_fre_get_fp_offset APIs.

* SFrame Version 2 is now the default (and only) format version supported by

  gas, ld, readelf and objdump.

* Add command-line option, --strip-section-headers, to objcopy and strip to

  remove ELF section header from ELF file.

* The RISC-V port now supports the following new standard extensions:

  - Zicond (conditional zero instructions)

  - Zfa (additional floating-point instructions)

  - Zvbb, Zvbc, Zvkg, Zvkned, Zvknh[ab], Zvksed, Zvksh, Zvkn, Zvknc, Zvkng,

    Zvks, Zvksc, Zvkg, Zvkt (vector crypto instructions)

* The RISC-V port now supports the following vendor-defined extensions:

   - XVentanaCondOps

* The LoongArch port now supports the following extensions:

  - LSX (Loongson SIMD eXtension; 128-bit vectors)

  - LASX (Loongson Advanced SIMD eXtension; 256-bit vectors)

  - LVZ (Loongson Virtualization extension)

  - LBT (Loongson Binary Translation extension)

* The LoongArch disassembly output received the following tweaks:

  - Colored output is now supported.

  - Some pseudo-instructions are now shown in place of the canonical forms,

    where semantics are equivalent. A disassembler option '-M no-aliases' is

    added to disable the new behavior.

  - Signed immediates are no longer printed with their hex representation.

  - Unrecognized instruction words are now shown with '.word'.

For more information see:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gas/NEWS;;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_41

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=ld/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_41

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=binutils/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_41

Our thanks go out to all of the binutils contributors, past and

present, for helping to make this release possible.

Cheers

Nick Clifton

GNU Binutils Chief Maintainer

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