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GNU Binutils 2.44 Released With Gas Support For AVX10.2, New Diamond Rapids Instructions


GNU Binutils 2.44 was released today as the newest version of this set of binary utilities that is important to the GNU toolchain.

Similar to other removal work in the GNU toolchain, the Nios II targets have been dropped with it being end-of-life. LD within GNU Binutils 2.44 now allows up to a 64KB maximum page size on LoongArch rather than the prior 16KB limit, support for mixed LTO and non-LTO codes in relocatable outputs, and several new options. Also new with GNU Binutils 2.44 is adding support to gprofng for hardware event counters with Neoverse-N1, AmpereOne, and AppliedMicro processors.

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