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Re: binutils development (was Re: Problems building binutils-000220snapshot)
- To: Graham Stoney <greyham at research dot canon dot com dot au>
- Subject: Re: binutils development (was Re: Problems building binutils-000220snapshot)
- From: Alan Modra <alan at SPRI dot Levels dot UniSA dot Edu dot Au>
- Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 22:48:40 +1030 (CST)
- cc: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Alan Modra wrote:
> In other words, you can treat H.J's releases as a sourceware snapshot,
> with maybe one or two fixes, that has been checked to work on Linux. I
> try to ensure that H.J's patches find their way into sourceware, and also
> notify H.J. if I find and fix a flaw that warrants a new release from him.
> This hasn't always been so. Earlier on, H.J's releases diverged rather
> more, often containing a large number of fixes and new features.
I have to retract this statement after looking over H.J's current release.
There's more than just one or two fixes. Some nice features added too:
--demangler and --style options for various binutils, and --redefine-sym
for objcopy. Sourceware has some catching up to do.
The IBM 370 support is going in tonight.