17 Document Revision History

Revision A (2013)

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Added new directives, options, and features pertaining to the PIC32C/SAM family of devices.

Added --dinit-compression option, which controls optimization of the data initialization template.
Added vdiv.f32, vmov.32, vpush, and vpop pseudo instructions
Updated information on the arguments to the .section directive
Added additional arguments to the --library option
Added relevant ARM library names associated with the --data-init option
Added the -mips16e option, an alias to -mips16
Added description of the -mdfp option, which is now typically required when building, and modified command-line examples to use this option
Indicated that many linker scripts and files now come from the DFP being used for a project
Added new form of --library option
Removed the --p option, which is not supported by XC32
Added --tls-first-copy option dealing with thread-local storage
Added a new Locating Attributed Objects section to describe what linker script entries might be necessary to place objects using attributes
Clarified that some options are options for the driver, not the linker or assembler