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- Changes for 2.1:
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- Several small fixes for i386-aix (PS/2) support from Minh Tran-Le have
- been incorporated, but not well tested yet.
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- Altered the opcode table split for m68k; it should require less VM to compile
- with gcc now.
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- Some minor adjustments to add (Convergent Technologies') Miniframe support,
- suggested by Ronald Cole.
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- HPPA support (running OSF only, not HPUX) has been contributed by Utah. This
- includes improved ELF support, which I've started adapting for SPARC Solaris
- 2.x. Integration isn't completely, so it probably won't work.
-
- HP9000/300 support, donated by HP, has been merged in.
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- Ian Taylor has finished the MIPS ECOFF (Ultrix, Irix) support.
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- Better error messages for unsupported configurations (e.g., hppa-hpux).
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- Test suite framework is starting to become reasonable.
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- Changes for 2.0:
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- Mostly bug fixes.
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- Some more merging of BFD and ELF code, but ELF still doesn't work.
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- Changes for 1.94:
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- BFD merge is partly done. Adventurous souls may try giving configure the
- "--with-bfd-assembler" option. Currently, ELF format requires it, a.out format
- accepts it; SPARC CPU accepts it. It's the default only for OS "elf" or
- "solaris". (ELF isn't really supported yet. It needs work. I've got some
- code from Utah for HP-PA ELF, and from DG for m88k ELF, but they're not fully
- merged yet.)
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- The 68K opcode table has been split in half. It should now compile under gcc
- without consuming ridiculous amounts of memory.
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- A couple data structures have been reduced in size. This should result in
- saving a little bit of space at runtime.
-
- Support for MIPS, from OSF and Ralph Campbell, has been merged in. The OSF
- code provided ROSE format support, which I haven't merged in yet. (I can make
- it available, if anyone wants to try it out.) Ralph's code, for BSD 4.4,
- supports a.out format. We don't have ECOFF support in just yet; it's coming.
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- Support for the Hitachi H8/500 has been added.
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- VMS host and target support should be working now, thanks chiefly to Eric
- Youngdale.
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- Changes for 1.93.01:
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- For m68k, support for more processors has been added: 68040, CPU32, 68851.
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- For i386, .align is now power-of-two; was number-of-bytes.
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- For m68k, "%" is now accepted before register names. For COFF format, which
- doesn't use underscore prefixes for C labels, it is required, so variable "a0"
- can be distinguished from the register.
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- Last public release was 1.38. Lots of configuration changes since then, lots
- of new CPUs and formats, lots of bugs fixed.
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