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Re: Q: Estimated date for 2.16 release ?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- Cc: "Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>" <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>,binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, Eric Norum <norume at aps dot anl dot gov>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 12:46:31 -0500
- Subject: Re: Q: Estimated date for 2.16 release ?
- References: <OF61577335.B313AA4D-ONC2256F96.004AE546-C2256F96.004B5A37@nsc.com> <20050127140010.GA447@nevyn.them.org> <41F8F9D3.3080502@OARcorp.com> <Pine.BSF.4.58.0501270929540.56553@dair.pair.com>
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:36:11AM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> wrote:
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00489.html
> >
> > Eric Norum (cc'ed) recently narrowed it down to this construct:
> >
> > =============================================================
> > A little poking around reveals that it's the lines like:
> >
> > _RamBase = DEFINED(_RamBase) ? _RamBase : 0x0;
> > _RamSize = DEFINED(_RamSize) ? _RamSize : 0x7f0000;
> > _HeapSize = DEFINED(_HeapSize) ? _HeapSize : 0; /* 0x20000;*/
> > _StackSize = DEFINED(_StackSize) ? _StackSize : 1M; /* 0x2000;*/
> >
> > that are killing ld.
> > ==============================================================
> >
> > Does this sound familiar?
>
> Yes. :-( The semantics of DEFINED has changed. IIRC, my patch
> to announce that in ld/NEWS before 2.15 received no comments.
> The usage above should still work, though.
>
> Can you open a PR with binutils-self-contained (only assembly
> files, no C or objects) test-case? Maybe all was at the URL
> above, but I don't see the ld command line. Still, please open
> a PR.
Was a PR ever created for this? Has anyone looked at it?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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