GNU Binutils 2.43 Released

[Nick Clifton]

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:

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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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