Message-Id: <200007102132.RAA18971@delorie.com>
From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 17:10:24 -0400
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Binutils 2.10 updated
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

An updated DJGPP port of Binutils 2.10 is now available from SimTel mirrors:

Binaries and Documentation (info and man formats):
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu210b.zip

Source:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu210s.zip

BFD library:
ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/bnu210a.zip

The update addresses the following problems discovered since the release:

* A weak symbol is turned into a strong one when writing it out
  to an executable. This fixes problems debugging with functions
  declared weak.
* The default DJGPP stub has been updated to the one in djdev 2.03.
* The .section directive in the BFD version of 'as' no longer allows you
  to change a section's attributes once they've been set. The .section
  directive in the non-BFD version of 'as' has this same flaw, but a fix
  for it is not yet available.
* 'objdump --debug' on an object file containing weak symbol now works.
* The function for returning the nearest line number for stabs debugging
  symbols now correctly handles DOS-style pathnames.
* Garbage -- often readable text -- near the start of an executable no
  longer appears in Binutils 2.10 generated executables.
* In the BFD version of gas, the VMA and LMA is now set for all sections.


Not mentioned in the updated readme.dos is support for the g++ init_priority 
attribute in gcc 2.95.2. The "gotcha" is that support for it and the 
constructor, destructor attributes is broken in gcc 2.95.2.