Release 2.47 of the GNU Binutils is now available

Hi Everyone,

We are pleased to announce that version 2.47 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/

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These tarballs were made with the "-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


As this is an odd numbered release, the sources for the GOLD
linker are *not* included.

This release contains numerous bug fixes, and also the
following new features:

  * A new assembler command line option: --reloc-section-sym=[all|internal|none]
    controls whether relocations referencing local binding symbols are adjusted
    to use section symbols.

  * Add support for RISC-V standard extensions:
      zalasr v1.0, svrsw60t59b v1.0, zvabd v1.0, smpmpmt v1.0,
      zvqwdota8i, zvqwdota16i, zvfwdota16bf and zvfqwdota8f v1.0,
      zvqwbdota8i, zvqwbdota16i, zvfwbdota16bf, zvfqwbdota8f and
      zvfbdota32f v1.0, SpacemiT: xsmtvdot v1.0, xsmtvdotii v1.0.

  * The AArch64 disassembler now accepts a command line option of "-M
    annotate" which displays the symbol associated with undefined
    instructions, should there be one.

    Similarly the x86 and x86_64 disassemblers now accept a command line
    option of "-M annotate-immediates" which displays the symbol
    associated with immediate values, should there be one.

  * Objdump and readelf now have a --debug-dir=<DIR> option which can be
    used to tell them where to find separate debug info files.

  * Objdump now has a --map-global-vars option which displays the
    location and type of global variables in object files.

  * The bfd linker now has an optimization level of zero.  Using "-O 0"
    on the linker command line will stop it from combining the contents
    of mergeable sections.  This can significantly speed up the link
    process at the cost of producing larger binaries.

  * Add linker support for --start-lib/--end-lib options and LIB linker
    script statement for treating a list of object files as members of
    an artificial archive.

  * Add linker support for archives with no symbol index in their all
    formats, not only XCOFF.  On by default and controlled with
    --no-link-mapless and --link-mapless options, also for XCOFF.

  Note - support for the 32-bit s390 target has been deprecated with
  this release.  Support for the 64-bit s390x target still works
  however.

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_47
  https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=ld/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_47
  https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob_plain;f=binutils/NEWS;hb=refs/tags/binutils-2_47

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