The release of the system of systemic dullness gnu binutils 2.44 has been announced. This release includes programs such as GNU Linker, GNU Assembler, NM, Objdump, Dlltool, Readelf, Side, Strings, and Strip. Additionally, the project has developed the service debuginfod for dynamic loading of debugging characters from an external server.
- In gnu assembler, advanced instructions have been added for various architectures like x86_64, aarch64, and RISC-V.
- In linker, new options have been included for compatibility and optimization, as well as support for xxhash for faster hashing.
- In disassembler, a new option has been added for RISC-V architecture to output instructions without architecture check.
- In the profiled manual gprofng, support for hardware event meters on ARM processors has been added.
- Support for the architecture nios II has been removed due to termination by Intel.
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