Release candidate 2.6.0.rc-Andes.

[Pete Chou]

Hello list,

We are going to release MCLinker 2.6.0 Andes, and you are welcome to test and report bug. :-) 

https://code.google.com/p/mclinker/source/list?name=release_26

2013-12-30 Chinyen Chou <pete...@gmail.com>

        * Executive Summary:

        1. Support ARM ELF Attribute

        2. Refine I/O memory management to improve linking speed

        3. Enhance EH Frame to reduce eh_frame section size

        4. Support garbage collection

        5. Enhance linker script

        6. Migrate to LLVM r195092

        * Command Line Options and Building System:

        1. Support -x and -X

        2. Support -gc-sections

        3. Support --no-warn-mismatch

        4. Support --(no-)ld-generated-unwind-info

        * Linker Script:

        1. Support --no-warn-mismatch

        2. SectionMap: Add "Input Section Keep" attribute

        * Garbage Collection:

        1. Add class GarbageCollection to support --gc-sections

        2. TargetLDBackend: Add API setUpReachedSectionsForGC

        3. ARM: GC .ARM.exidx

        4. Add ResolveInfo::InDyn

        * EH Frame Enhancement:

        1. EhFrame: In EhFrame::merge identical eh_frame CIE and discard the FDE for 

           Ignore sections

        2. X86LDBackend: Add eh_frame entry for x86/x86_64 PLT 

        * Target Backends:

        1. Target: add ELF attribute support

        2. ARM: add ARM ELF attribute support

        3. ARM: support more relocation types: R_ARM_V4BX and R_ARM_THM_JUMP19

        4. GOT/PLT/OutputRelocSection: remove the concept "reserve" and "consume". In

           ARM, X86 and Hexagon backends, reserve and consume entries at the same time

        5. TargetLDBackend: add getEntry to get the entry point of an executable

        * Architectural Changes:

        1. Deprecate bcc 

        2. Add ObjectLinker::dataStrippingOpt for the data stripping optimizations

        3. Change the include guard naming to <PROJECT>_<PATH>_<FILE>_H

        4. Refine I/O memory management to improve linking speed

        5. Add ObjectLinker::addSymbolsToOutput to add symbols to output symbol table

           at once after all input symbols have been resolved

Thanks,

Pete