[PATCH v11 7/7] NEWS: Mention DT_RELR support

Fangrui Song maskray@google.com
Fri Apr 22 22:40:39 GMT 2022


On 2022-04-22, H.J. Lu wrote:
>---
> NEWS | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
>index 4b6d9de2b5..ef8ac4acd2 100644
>--- a/NEWS
>+++ b/NEWS
>@@ -9,7 +9,12 @@ Version 2.36
>
> Major new features:
>
>-  [Add new features here]
>+* Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
>+  glibc.  This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
>+  relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
>+  executables (PIE).  DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
>+  -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
>+  in recent binutils versions.  Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
>
> Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
>
>-- 
>2.35.1

I'll leave the other patches to Adhemerval :)

Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>


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