Message-Id:	<200107061715.NAA25775@delorie.com>
From:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To:	djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:02:42 -0400
Subject:	ANNOUNCE: Binutils 2.11.2 released
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

The DJGPP port of Binutils 2.11.2 has been released.

GNU Binutils is a collection of utilities for creating and examining object and executable files. 
The most important of these utilities are the assembler (as) and the linker (ld). The assembler 
takes the the output of a GNU compiler to produce an object file readable by the linker. The 
linker then reads the object files to create an executable. Another important utility is the 
archiver (ar) that creates libraries of object files (like libc.a).  

New in Binutils 2.11.2:

* Assembler Fix: Symbols with the same name would sometimes be merged when they shouldn't.
* Linker Fix: Don't emit section symbols from sections that won't be emitted or will be discarded.
* Increased DWARF2 support for DJGPP.

New in Binutils 2.11:

* SSE2 support.
* DWARF2 support for DJGPP.
* Linker script update for libstdc++ v3.

GCC 3.0 when released will produce DWARF2 debug info with the '-gdwarf-2' 
switch. The next version of GDB for DJGPP will presumably support DWARF2.

Available from SimTel mirrors:

Binaries and Documentation (info and man formats):
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2112b.zip&name=bnu2112b.zip

Source:
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2112s.zip&name=bnu2112s.zip

BFD library:
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2112a.zip&name=bnu2112a.zip

Testsuite:
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu2112t.zip&name=bnu2112t.zip

The testsuite doesn't work with DJGPP so it has been split from the source 
and made available as a separate download.

Read readme.dos in any of the archives for more information. 

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