[binutils-gdb] [2.34] Mention x86 assembler options to align branches

[H.J.Lu]

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=5eb617a71463fa6810cd14f57adfe7a1efc93a96

commit 5eb617a71463fa6810cd14f57adfe7a1efc93a96
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Feb 6 07:50:16 2020 -0800

    [2.34] Mention x86 assembler options to align branches
    
    	* NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options to align branches for
    	binutils 2.34.

Diff:
---
 gas/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
 gas/NEWS      | 5 +++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gas/ChangeLog b/gas/ChangeLog
index 8955f53..9fa0350 100644
--- a/gas/ChangeLog
+++ b/gas/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2020-02-06  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
 
+	* NEWS: Mention x86 assembler options to align branches for
+	binutils 2.34.
+
+2020-02-06  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
+
 	* testsuite/gas/i386/i386.exp: Run unique and x86-64-unique
 	only for ELF targets.
 	* testsuite/gas/i386/unique.d: Don't xfail.
diff --git a/gas/NEWS b/gas/NEWS
index 5ed7302..9a3f352 100644
--- a/gas/NEWS
+++ b/gas/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
 
 Changes in 2.34:
 
+* Add -malign-branch-boundary=NUM, -malign-branch=TYPE[+TYPE...],
+  -malign-branch-prefix-size=NUM and -mbranches-within-32B-boundaries
+  options to x86 assembler to align branches within a fixed boundary
+  with segment prefixes or NOPs.
+
 * Add support for Zilog eZ80 and Zilog Z180 CPUs.
 
 * Add support for z80-elf target.