Changelog for binutils-gold-2.38-24.fc37.x86_64.rpm :

* Wed Aug 31 2022 Yara Ahmad - 2.38-24- Improving the performance of bfd function lookup_func_by_offset
* Thu Aug 04 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-23- Add the --package-metadata option to the linkers. (#2099999)
* Thu Jul 28 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-22- Fix a couple of x86_64 linker testsuite failures.
* Tue Jul 26 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-21- Tweak the PowerPC assembler\'s handling of the .machine directive. (#2111082)
* Tue Jul 26 2022 Amit Shah - 2.38-20- Check and enable 64-bit bfd on aarch64 and riscv64.
* Mon Jul 25 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-19- Restore the use of --enable-64-bit-bfd for the AArch64 and riscv64 targets.
* Wed Jul 20 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.38-18- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_37_Mass_Rebuild
* Thu Jun 30 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-16- Fix a problem honouring readelf\'s -wE and -wN command line options.
* Mon Jun 13 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-15- Fix a problem with PowerPC\'s handling of DT_RELR relocs. (#2095622)- Move annobin data into a separate debuginfo file.
* Wed Jun 08 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-14- Fix bugs preventing the linker tests from running.
* Fri May 27 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-14- Fix bug in binutils.spec file that was causing the wrong linker flags to be used.
* Fri May 27 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-13- Change the ld man page so that it says that --enable-new-dtags is the default. (#2090818)
* Tue May 24 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-12- x86 linker: Disallow invalid relocations against protected symbols. (#2089358)
* Fri May 20 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-11- Stop readelf and objdump from unnecessarily following links. (#2086863)
* Thu May 19 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-10- Add support for generating static PIE binaries for s390x. (#2088331)
* Thu May 12 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-9- Fix description of gold subpackage so that it does not include the Requires fields. (#2082919)
* Mon Apr 04 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-8- Fix linker testsuite failures.
* Wed Mar 30 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-7- Fix a bug handling indirect symbols. (PR 28879) (#2068343)
* Thu Mar 10 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-6- Simplify the assembler\'s evaluation of chained .loc view expressions. [Second attempt] (#2059646)
* Thu Mar 10 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-5- Add an option to objdump/readelf to disable accessing debuginfod servers. (#2051741)
* Wed Mar 09 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-4- Simplify the assembler\'s evaluation of chained .loc view expressions. (#2059646)
* Mon Feb 28 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-3- Do not export any windows tools (if they were built). (#2057636)
* Wed Feb 16 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-2- Add support for specifying a section type in linker scripts. (#2052801)
* Wed Feb 09 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.38-1- Rebase on GNU Binutils 2.38.
* Thu Jan 27 2022 Nick Clifton - 2.37-25- Borrow a patch from the GCC package to stop libtool from inserting needless runpaths into binaries. (#2030667)
* Wed Jan 19 2022 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.37-24- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_36_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Dec 20 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-23- Fix a potential illegal memory access parsing a COFF format file. (#2033716)
* Thu Dec 02 2021 Luca Boccassi - 2.37-22- Backport upstream patch to allow readelf to recognize packaging metadata note.
* Wed Dec 01 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-21- Add support for the EFI format to the AArch64 target. (#2027515)
* Thu Nov 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-20- Add ability to warn about multibyte characters in the assembler. (#2018848)
* Tue Nov 16 2021 Luca Boccassi - 2.37-19- Allows linker scripts to set the SEC_READONLY flag.
* Tue Nov 09 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-18- Add ability to show unicode characters to display tools.
* Wed Oct 27 2021 Orion Poplawski - 2.37-17- Add upstream patch to use the directory name in .file 0, fixes ccache FTBFS (bz#1996936)
* Tue Oct 26 2021 Timm Baeder - 2.27-16- Remove leftover libtool files.
* Wed Oct 13 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.27-15- Fix linker seg-fault compiling efivar libraries. (#2012247)
* Wed Sep 29 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.27-14- Fix linker testsuite failures triggered by 2.27-13 patch. (#2008203)
* Fri Sep 17 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.27-13- Default to an entry address of 0 for shared libraries. (#2004952)
* Mon Sep 13 2021 Tom Stellard - 2.37-12- Disable LTO on arm. (#1918924)
* Tue Aug 31 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-11- Enable -separate-code for all architectures, not just x86/x86_64.
* Tue Aug 31 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-10- Allow configuring with autonconf 2.71. (#1999437)
* Wed Aug 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-9- Fix a few testsuite failures.
* Wed Aug 11 2021 Stephen Gallagher - 2.37-8- Backport upstream patch to fix fd exhaustion- Resolves: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28138
* Tue Aug 10 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-6- Ensure that the manual pages are generated. (#1989836)
* Tue Aug 10 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-5- Fix a local change to readelf which resulted in a success exit code for non-existant files. (#1990817)
* Mon Aug 09 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-4- Ensure that dir[0] contains pwd in gas generated DWARF-5 directory tables. (#1966987)
* Wed Jul 21 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.37-3- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_35_Mass_Rebuild
* Wed Jul 21 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-2- Various fixes for testsuite failures.
* Mon Jul 19 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.37-1- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.37.- Retire: binutils-2.36-branch-updates.patch- Retire: binutils-CVE-2021-20197.patch- Retire: binutils-CVE-2021-3530.patch- Retire: binutils-plugin-file-descriptors.patch- Retire: binutils-ppc-weak-undefined-plt-relocs.patch- Retire: binutils-ppc64le-note-merge.patch- Retire: binutils-s390-arch14-insns.patch
* Mon Jun 21 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-15- Enable the creation of .note.gnu.property sections by the GOLD linker for x86 binaries. (#1970961)
* Thu Jun 03 2021 Timm Bäder - 2.36.1-14- Set clang bconf default based on %toolchain.- Diable LTO when using clang.- Disable check-rpath\'s test for standard runpaths.- Make the existing tests have the gating effect.
* Tue May 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-13- Increase number of file descriptors available to plugins. (#1918924)- Remove uses of RPATH.
* Tue May 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-12- Generate PLT relocs for weak undefined PPC function symbols. (#1960730)
* Fri May 14 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-11- Enable file descriptor increase for plugin use.
* Thu May 13 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-10- Enable use of new dtags.
* Fri May 07 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-9- Fix stack exhaustion in the rust demangler. (#1956424)
* Thu Mar 25 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-8- Add an explicit dependency upon autoconf 2.69. (#1942991)
* Thu Mar 11 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-7- Extend vulnerability fix yet again. (#1925779)
* Mon Feb 22 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-6- Fix merging ppc64le notes (again). (#1928936)
* Fri Feb 19 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-5- Unretire the CVE 2021-20197 patch.
* Fri Feb 19 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-4- Add support for the Z extensions to the s390x architecture.
* Thu Feb 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-3- Fix merging ppc64le notes. (#1928936)
* Fri Feb 12 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-2- Fix testsuite failures triggered by locally applied patches.
* Thu Feb 11 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.36.1-1- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.36.1.- Retire: binutils-2.35.1-update.patch- Retire: binutils-CVE-2021-20197.patch- Retire: binutils-DWARF-5-line-number-parsing.patch- Retire: binutils-LTO-fix.patch- Retire: binutils-Power10-fixes.patch- Retire: binutils-SHF_LINK_ORDER.patch- Retire: binutils-aarch64-condbranch-relocs.patch- Retire: binutils-add-sym-cache-to-elf-link-hash.patch- Retire: binutils-attach-to-group.patch- Retire: binutils-config.patch- Retire: binutils-duplicate-sections.patch- Retire: binutils-dwarf-DW_FORM_ref8.patch- Retire: binutils-dwarf-type-sign-2.patch- Retire: binutils-dwarf-type-sign.patch- Retire: binutils-elf-add-objects.patch- Retire: binutils-gas-auto-dwarf-5.patch- Retire: binutils-gold-gnu-properties.patch- Retire: binutils-plugin-as-needed.patch- Retire: binutils-ppc-annobin-disassembly.patch- Retire: binutils-recursive-debuglink-following.patch- Retire: binutils-s390-build.patch- Retire: binutils-strip-merge.patch- Retire: binutils-testsuite-failures.patch- Retire: binutils-warnings.patch
* Mon Feb 08 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-34- Extend vulnerability fix again. (#1925779)
* Thu Feb 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-33- Preserve debug information in libbfd.a and libopcodes.a. (#1924068)
* Thu Feb 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-32- Extend vulnerability fix again. (#1913744)
* Wed Feb 03 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-31- Enable PEP support for all targets. (#1920373)
* Tue Feb 02 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-30- Extend vulnerability fix. (#1913744)
* Mon Feb 01 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-29- Add support for DWARF-5 sections to the bfd linker\'s scripts. (#1922707)
* Fri Jan 29 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-28- Fix a vulnerability in the smart_rename function. (#1913744)
* Thu Jan 28 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-27- Fix failures is gas and ld testsuites.
* Tue Jan 26 2021 Fedora Release Engineering - 2.35.1-26- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_34_Mass_Rebuild
* Mon Jan 25 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-25- Update the BFD library to handle DWARF-5 line number ranges.
* Thu Jan 21 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-24- Update the GOLD linker to handle x86 .note.gnu.property sections. (#1916925)
* Mon Jan 18 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-23- Add a fix to gas to automatically enable DWARF-5 style file name tables.
* Fri Jan 15 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-22- Add an option (currently disabled) to build a linker which generates new dtags.
* Tue Jan 12 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-21- Ensure that bfd.h is the same for i686- and x86_64 versions of the devel rpm. (#1915317)
* Fri Jan 08 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-20- Fix bug running readelf on an empty file. (#1903448)
* Thu Jan 07 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-19- Fix bug running readelf on a file that cannot be read. (#1913589)
* Mon Jan 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-18- Fix linking with multiple same-name sections. (PR 27100)
* Mon Jan 04 2021 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-17- Fix linking mixed SHF_LINK_ORDER and non-SHF_LINK_ORDER sections. (#1907945)
* Thu Nov 26 2020 Florian Weimer - 2.35.1-16- NVR bump for toolchain rebuild
* Wed Nov 25 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-15- Import fixes added to the 2.35 branch after the 2.35.1 release.
* Tue Nov 10 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-14- Add support for DW_FORM_ref8 when parsing DWARF types. (#1893921)
* Tue Nov 03 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-13- Extend fix for erroneous decoding of LEB128 values.
* Tue Nov 03 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-12- Another correction for plugin as-needed patch. (#1889763)
* Wed Oct 28 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-11- Correction for plugin as-needed patch. (#1889763)
* Tue Oct 27 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-8- Really fix erroneous decoding of LEB128 values. (#1891171)
* Wed Oct 21 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-7- Fix erroneous decoding of LEB128 values. (#188716)
* Thu Oct 15 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-6- Make readelf and objdump recursively follow debug links. (PR 26595)
* Fri Oct 09 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-5- Allow plugin syms to mark as-needed shared libs needed
* Thu Oct 08 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-4- Fix various problems with Power10 support.
* Tue Oct 06 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-3- Fix strip when merging multiple same-named sections. (#1885607)
* Mon Sep 21 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35.1-1- Rebase to GNU Binutils 2.35.1 release.- Retire: binutils-gas-dwarf-level-4.patch- Retire: binutils-aarch64-plt-sh_entsize.patch- Retire: binutils-ppc-rename-xvcvbf16sp-to-xvcvbf16spn.patch- Retire: binutils-dwarf-5-fixes.patch
* Fri Sep 11 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-14- Fix the PowerPC disassembler so that it ignores annobin symbols.
* Thu Sep 10 2020 Nick Clifton - 2.35-13- Fix the handling of relocations for AArch64 conditional branches.