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Expand Up @@ -344,21 +344,26 @@ Changes to the LLVM tools
* Fixed big-endian support in llvm-symbolizer's DWARF location parser.
* llvm-readelf now supports ``--extra-sym-info`` (``-X``) to display extra
information (section name) when showing symbols.

* ``llvm-nm`` now supports the ``--line-numbers`` (``-l``) option to use
debugging information to print symbols' filenames and line numbers.
* ``llvm-readobj``/``llvm-readelf`` now supports ``--decompress``/``-z`` with
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There are a number of references to tool names in other notes within this file without the backticks. They should probably be normalised at some point.

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added more backticks

string and hex dump for ELF object files.

* llvm-symbolizer and llvm-addr2line now support addresses specified as symbol names.

* llvm-objcopy now supports ``--gap-fill`` and ``--pad-to`` options, for
ELF input and binary output files only.
* ``llvm-objcopy`` now supports ``-O elf64-s390`` for SystemZ.

* Supported parsing XCOFF auxiliary symbols in obj2yaml.

* ``llvm-ranlib`` now supports ``-X`` on AIX to specify the type of object file
ranlib should examine.

* ``llvm-cxxfilt`` now supports ``--no-params``/``-p`` to skip function
parameters.

* ``llvm-nm`` now supports ``--export-symbol`` to ignore the import symbol file.
* ``llvm-nm`` now supports the ``--line-numbers`` (``-l``) option to use
debugging information to print symbols' filenames and line numbers.

* llvm-rc and llvm-windres now accept file path references in ``.rc`` files
concatenated from multiple string literals.
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