libctf/NEWS

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   3 Changes in 2.39:
   4
   5 * New features
   6
   7 ** The CTF variable section (if generated via ld --ctf-variables) now contains
   8    entries for static functions, hidden functions, and other functions with
   9    no associated symbol.  The associated type is of kind CTF_K_FUNCTION.
  10    (No change if --ctf-variables is not specified, which is the default.)
  11
  12 Changes in 2.37:
  13
  14 * New features
  15
  16 ** Add ctf_lookup_by_symbol name and ctf_arc_lookup_symbol_name, analogues of
  17    existing ctf_lookup_by_symbol and ctf_arc_lookup_symbol, but looking up
  18    symbols by name rather than symbol number.  This also works in places where no
  19    symbol number is known, like in object files and dynamic dicts created by
  20    ctf_create.
  21
  22 ** libctf supports compilers that encode unrepresentable types via a special
  23    kind (CTF_K_UNKNOWN) as well as via type ID 0.
  24
  25 * Bugfixes
  26
  27 ** Avoid duplicating or losing types of data object symbols when
  28    ld -r is used
  29
  30 ** Prohibit typedefs with no name; prevent the linker/deduplicator
  31    producing such typedefs
  32
  33 * Bugfixes, also on 2.36 branch
  34
  35 ** Prevent ctf_lookup_by_name returning success when
  36    looking up nonexistent pointer types
  37
  38 ** Fix ctf_type_add copying of structs with unnamed members