Updated: binutils-2.21.53-1

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>]

I've made a new version of binutils available for installation.  This is
a refresh against the current CVS.

A partial list of changes is included after the unsubscribe info.  This list
comes from three binutils NEWS files.  Some of it may not pertain to the
Windows platform.

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== For binutils ==

* Add support for displaying the contents of .debug.macro sections.

* Add --preprocessor-arg option to windres to specify additional options
  passed to preprocessor.

* Add --dwarf-start and --dwarf-end to readelf and objdump.  These are used by
  the new Emacs mode, see dwarf-mode.el.

Changes in 2.21:

* Add --interleave-width option to objcopy to allowing copying a range of
  bytes from the input to the output with the --interleave option.

* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.

* Readelf can now display ARM unwind tables (.ARM.exidx / .ARM.extab) using
  the -u / --unwind option.

* Add --dyn-syms to readelf to dump dynamic symbol table.

* A new tool - elfedit - has been added to directly manipulate ELF format
  binaries.

* Add to dlltool .def file feature of aliasing PE internal symbol name by
  '== <ID>' option.

* Add a new command line option -a / --addresses to addr2line to display the
  address before function name or source filename.

* Add a new command line option -p / --pretty-print to addr2line to have
  a more human readable output.

* The hppa/som targets can now be compiled on any host.

== For ld ==

* INPUT_SECTION_FLAGS has been added to the linker script language
to allow selection of input sections by section header section flags.

* Add support for the Tilera TILEPRO and TILE-Gx architectures.

* Added SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY to the linker script language to permit
sorting sections by numerical value of the GCC init_priority attribute
encoded in the section name.

Changes in 2.21:

* Linker script expression evaluation is somewhat more sane.  This may
  break scripts that depend on quirks of the old expression evaluation.

* Turn off underscoring for x86_64 PE+-COFF targets.  For old behavior the
  option --enable-leading-mingw64-underscores can be used on configure of
  bfd.

* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.

* --add-needed renamed to --copy-dt-needed-entries in order to avoid confusion
  with --as-needed option.

* Extend .def file syntax by '== <ID>' for imports and exports. This allows
  to alias the import/export table name written in PE image.

* Add --exlcude-all-symbols option to PE based linkers.  This prevents all
  symbols from automatically being exported.

* Add support for the Renesas RX processor.

* Add support for alpha-vms target.

== For gas ==

* Add support for the Tilera TILEPRO and TILE-Gx architectures.

Changes in 2.21:

* Gas no longer requires doubling of ampersands in macros.

* Add support for the TMS320C6000 (TI C6X) processor family.

* GAS now understands an extended syntax in the .section directive flags
  for COFF targets that allows the section's alignment to be specified.  This
  feature has also been backported to the 2.20 release series, starting with
  2.20.1.

* Add support for the Renesas RX processor.

* New command line option, --compress-debug-sections, which requests
  compression of DWARF debug information sections in the relocatable output
  file.  Compressed debug sections are supported by readelf, objdump, and
  gold, but not currently by Gnu ld.