svn commit: r48594 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Warren Block <[email protected]>
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Author: wblock Date: Tue Apr 12 22:29:17 2016 New Revision: 48594 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/48594 Log: Add ELF toolchain report from Ed Maste <[email protected]>. Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Tue Apr 12 22:25:28 2016 (r48593) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml Tue Apr 12 22:29:17 2016 (r48594) @@ -1232,4 +1232,70 @@ </task> </help> </project> + + <project cat='bin'> + <title>ELF Tool Chain tools</title> + + <contact> + <person> + <name> + <given>Ed</given> + <common>Maste</common> + </name> + <email>[email protected]</email> + </person> + </contact> + + <links> + <url href="http://elftoolchain.sourceforge.net">ELF Tool Chain web site</url> + </links> + + <body> + <p>The ELF Tool Chain project provides BSD-licensed + implementations of compilation tools and libraries for + building and analyzing ELF objects. The project began as part + of &os; but later became an independent project to encourage + wider participation from others in the open-source developer + community.</p> + + <p>The ELF Tool Chain project released version 0.7.1 in + February. We have been tracking snapshots of the upstream + repository in &os; and are not blocked waiting for releases to + update. Having an official release brings the benefit of + broader testing and visibility within other open source + projects.</p> + + <p>In the first quarter of 2016 The ELF Tool Chain tools were + updated to a snapshot of upstream SVN revision 3400, which + is close to the 0.7.1 release. Additional bug fixes were + committed to FreeBSD and subsequently merged into the upstream + repository.</p> + + <p>ELF Tool Chain's <tt>elfcopy(1)</tt> is now installed as + <tt>objcopy(1)</tt> by default as it is a viable replacement + for the base system and ports tree.</p> + + <p>Significant improvements were made to the + <tt>elfcopy(1)</tt>, <tt>readelf(1)</tt>, and + <tt>elfdump(1)</tt> tools, including better MIPS, RISC-V, and + AArch64 support.</p> + </body> + + <sponsor>The &os; Foundation</sponsor> + + <help> + <task> + <p>Fix issues found by fuzzing inputs to the tools.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Add automatic support for separate debug files.</p> + </task> + + <task> + <p>Investigate replacement objdump, ld and as + implementations.</p> + </task> + </help> + </project> </report> _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-doc-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"