A new `gas` option, `--reloc-section-sym`, controls how local symbols are converted to section symbols in relocations for ELF files, offering `all`, `internal`…
A patch prevents a segfault in vms-alpha support within binutils when processing fuzzed object files by adding a NULL check for `image_section`.
Adds a comprehensive test suite for PE COFF weak externals to cover various interactions between weak and strong symbols.
This series fixes two bugs related to PE COFF weak external symbol resolution in the BFD linker and adds testsuite coverage.
The call for proposals for the toolchain track at FOSSY 2026 in Vancouver closes on June 1st.
This patch prevents the AArch64 assembler from incorrectly using section-relative symbols in GOT relocations, fixing PR30788.
Avoids allocating excessive memory for aarch64 core sections by ignoring `rawsize` in bfd_core, preventing potential uninitialized value usage and OOM errors.
Adds the `.dirstamp` file to `.gitignore` to prevent it from being tracked in the repository.
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The Translation Project robot submitted a revised German PO file for the 'ld' textual domain, requesting its inclusion in the next release.
Sourceware highlights its activities and achievements over the past year as a Conservancy member project, including infrastructure improvements and community e…
Author confirms deletion of a mistakenly pushed branch and clarifies its purpose.
Sam James plans a binutils-2.46.1 release to address C23/glibc-2.43 const correctness issues and asks for other fixes to backport.
To allow the Linux kernel and Clang to use libctf, the proposer suggests relicensing libctf-nobfd.so from GPLv3+ to LGPLv3+.
Jan reports a testsuite failure due to a missing global variable when running with RUNTESTFLAGS=x86-64.
This patch series adds support for new AMDGPU architectures and related features to binutils.
The GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 will be held in Prague from October 2nd to 4th, with a Toolchains Track at the Linux Plumbers Conference.
The monthly Sourceware Open Office meeting will discuss the past year's achievements and budget for the upcoming year.
The Binutils 2.46 tarball was packaged with 'development=true' due to different commits used for the two tarballs.
H.J. Lu proposes backporting patches to binutils 2.46 to fix build issues with glibc 2.43 due to stricter const checking.
Nick Clifton clarifies that the RFC to annotate undefined AArch64 instructions is driven by a desire for more informative disassembler output, not a specific u…
Qualifer-preserving `strchr()` causes build errors in binutils; this patch series fixes them.
The Malay translation team has submitted a revised PO file for the 'bfd' text domain.
This patch fixes an alignment issue in LoongArch when using `ld -r` by adding an align section and relocation.
Fixes a test case for LoongArch instruction alignment that was over-specified, causing failures on 32-bit objects.
This patch sets the text-segment address to the maximum page size for ELF Position Dependent Executables (PDEs) when specified via command-line to avoid loadin…
This patch renames Arm architecture tags to include profile suffixes (A, R, M) for consistency across binutils components.
Renames Arm architecture tags to include the profile suffix for A-profile architectures, improving consistency, while preserving the numeric tag values.
Adds generic AMDGPU architectures (gfx9-generic, gfx10-1-generic, etc.) to binutils.
gprof now includes function names from line/debug symbols, correctly attributing CPU cycles to inlined functions.
This patch fixes a discarded qualifier call in gprof by ensuring the result of strrchr is stored in a const char *.
This patch adds support for the RISC-V Zvabd extension, which provides vector integer absolute difference operations.
A RISC-V linker change ensures undefined symbols are treated as dynamic symbols when linking with `--unresolved-symbols=ignore-in-object-file`, fixing crashes…
This patch fixes an issue in the RISC-V linker that prevented undefined symbols from being resolved by the dynamic linker when using --unresolved-symbols=ignor…
The patch prevents a potential buffer underrun during RISC-V ISA extension parsing.
This patch fixes multiple RISC-V linker test failures by ignoring attributes in empty input files during attribute merging.
Fixes a null pointer dereference in the alpha backend that caused ASan failures when handling local weak undefined symbols.
The patch modifies the x86 disassembler to pass "%s" as the format string to `i386_dis_printf` to prevent format string vulnerabilities.
Adds native Linux support for GDB for the MicroBlaze architecture, including core target support and basic debugger functionality.
Fixes a format string vulnerability in the x86 disassembler by adding format specifiers to `i386_dis_printf` calls.
Fixes a potential memory leak in the x86 disassembler by ensuring annotation buffers are always freed.
Fixes an objcopy error on MIPS when .note.gnu.build-id follows SHT_NOBITS sections due to file offset tracking.
Introduces --reloc-section-sym option to control conversion of local symbols to section symbols in ELF relocations, aiding debugging and tooling.
A patch to prevent segfaults in gas when an open CFI is encountered at EOF has been approved.
Submit talk proposals for the toolchain track at FOSSY 2026 by June 1st.
This patch inlines FLD_* macro uses in aarch64-tbl.h and defines FLD as an alias for AARCH64_FLD in aarch64-gen.c.
Enforce stack pointer requirements using opcode flags instead of operand qualifiers, simplifying the code.
The patch removes a notice in as.texi that .abort will one day not be supported, arguing it's a widely used feature.
Simon Marchi confirms that a patch addressing msgpack detection in binutils configure script has fixed the issue.
The configure script is updated to look for both msgpack.pc and msgpack-c.pc to accommodate the msgpack library's filename change.
Fixes potential infinite recursion in symbol simplification for x86/Intel assembly, but the proposed fix is suspected to be incorrect.
This patch fixes an infinite recursion issue in i386_intel_simplify_symbol() and adds a testcase to prevent regressions.
Extends objdump to print embedded source code from DWARFv5 debug information, if present.
This patch adds support for printing embedded source code from DWARFv5 debugging information using objdump.
Fixes a testsuite error in x86-64 mode by defining the `exe` variable.
Binutils SECURITY.txt will clarify that crashes from fuzzed binaries, without a breach of trust boundary, are not security bugs.
The patch allows building GCC with multilib support for LoongArch without needing `--enable-targets=all` in the binutils configuration.
The linker's input_statement_is_archive_path function is refactored to avoid modifying its input argument, improving code safety.
Nick Alcock updates his email address in the binutils MAINTAINERS file following a redundancy notice.
Simon Marchi fixed the order of AMDGPU constants in `include/elf/amdgpu.h` to be in ascending value order.
The patch proposes a warning when local symbols have non-default visibility, which is against ELF spec. The author considers reverting to earlier behavior.
Jan points out that the proposed patch needs to be applied to the source file (ld/ld.texi) and the tip of the master branch.
Adds URLs to elf/amdgpu.h to clarify the source of AMDGPU ELF header constants.
readelf now decodes the EF_AMDGPU_GENERIC_VERSION_V flag for AMDGPU code object V6.
-gc-section support is re-enabled for hppa64-*-hpux targets by allocating space in .data to handle invalid relocation offsets.
The build system now builds gprof in binutils_step_compile to avoid check failures in binutils_step_check.
Removes unused PC-relative relocation enumerators for the mn10300 architecture in the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library.
Fixes incorrect usage of a PC-relative relocation enumerator for non-PC-relative relocations in the s390 and SH backends of the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) li…
Removes unused relocation enumerators in the SH backend of the Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library, likely leftovers from SH5's 64-bit ISA.
A patch adding gprof support for split debuginfo has been pushed after review.
The libsframe configure script is updated to correctly determine the package version by including bfd/version.m4.
The ARCH_SIZE parameter is factored out of _bfd_riscv_elf_merge_private_bfd_data() to avoid building the code twice.
The patch adds SFrame support for PowerPC64 to resolve issues with stale link registers and epilogue races during profiling.
The `.attribute` directive must precede any instruction, including those emitted by `.insn`; related improvements are suggested.
This series enables ELF tests for Haiku, addressing previous shortcomings and potential regressions across Haiku targets.
Removes an unused variable in libctf that was initialized to itself.