Update NEWS with aarch64 static pie support

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Szabolcs Nagy Dec. 18, 2017, 2:48 p.m. UTC
  is this ok?
  

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H.J. Lu Dec. 18, 2017, 4:05 p.m. UTC | #1
On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 6:48 AM, Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com> wrote:
> is this ok?

LGTM.

Thanks.
  

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From 813b72b887a4696014d234d19635ec148c6bb461 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Szabolcs Nagy <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2017 11:47:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Update NEWS with aarch64 static pie support

The required binutils patches are not in a released version yet, but
glibc has support for static linked pie on aarch64 since commit
14d886edbd3d80b771e1c42fbd9217f9074de9c6
---
 NEWS | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0670585b4c..a43ff26e83 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@  Major new features:
   memory and performance.  When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
   the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
   executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'.  This feature is currently
-  supported on i386, x86_64 and x32.
+  supported on i386, x86_64, x32 and aarch64.
 
 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
   sinf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and H.J. Lu
-- 
2.11.0