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GNU Binutils 2.43 Released

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 05, 2024,
updated Aug 06, 2024

Hi Everyone,

We are pleased to announce that version 2.43 of the GNU Binutils project sources have been released and are now available for download at:
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/
This time we are also including tarballs compressed with the zstd program.
Checksums:
fed3c3077f0df7a4a1aa47b080b8c53277593ccbb4e5e78b73ffb4e3f265e750 binutils-2.43.tar.bz2 025c436d15049076ebe511d29651cc4785ee502965a8839936a65518582bdd64 binutils-2.43.tar.gz f2cf0ea54ae2a223df27b20915b1624008e06e2f10dc57893f292bbb033e7001 binutils-2.43.tar.lz b53606f443ac8f01d1d5fc9c39497f2af322d99e14cea5c0b4b124d630379365 binutils-2.43.tar.xz ba5e600af2d0e823312b4e04d265722594be7d94906ebabe6eaf8d0817ef48ed binutils-2.43.tar.zst
As an experiment these tarballs were made with the new "-r <date>" option supported by the src-release.sh script. This attempts to make reproducible tarballs by sorting the files and passing the "--mtime=<date>" option to tar. The date used for these tarballs was obtained by running:
git log -1 --format=%cd --date=format:%F bfd/version.m4
This release contains numerous bug fixes, and also the following new features:
Assembler:
* Add a .base64 directive to the assembler which allows base64 encoded binary data to be provided as strings.
* Assembler macros as well as the bodies of .irp / .irpc / .rept can now use the syntax \+ to access the number of times a given macro has been executed. This is similar to the already existing \@ syntax, except that the count is maintained on a per-macro basis.
* References to FB and dollar labels, when supported, are no longer permitted in a radix other than 10. (Note that definitions of such labels were already thus restricted, except that leading zeroes were permitted).
Linker:
* Add support for DT_RELR type compressed runtime relocations for the AArch64 and LoongArch architectures.
* Add --rosegment option which changes the -z separate-code option so that only one read-only segment is created (instead of two).
* Add --section-ordering-file <FILE> option to add extra mapping of input sections to output sections.
* Add -plugin-save-temps to store plugin intermediate files permanently.
Utilities:
* Readelf will now display DT_RELR relocations in full detail.
* Readelf now has a -j/--display-section option which takes the name or index of a section and displays its contents according to its type. The option can be used multiple times on the command line to display multiple sections.
* When objdump or readelf are used to display the contents of a .eh_frame section they will now also display the contents of the .eh_frame_hdr section, if present.
Gprofng:
* Improved the support for hardware event counters: - Re-designed and streamlined the implementation. - Defined a common set of events for ARM processors. - Added specific events for AMD ZEN3 / ZEN4, and Intel Ice Lake processors. * Added a minimal support for RISC-V.
General:
* Target specific improvements for many architectures. For more information see: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=gas/NEWS;;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_43 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=ld/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_43 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=binutils/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_43
Our thanks go out to all of the binutils contributors, past and present, for helping to make this release possible.
Cheers Nick Clifton GNU Binutils Chief Maintainer

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