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Re: Strange binutils-2_16-branch and related tags
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
- To: Jie Zhang <jie dot zhang at analog dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 18:58:59 +0200
- Subject: Re: Strange binutils-2_16-branch and related tags
- References: <4A0307C9.4040908@analog.com>
Jie Zhang <jie.zhang@analog.com> writes:
> I just found a strange thing on binutils-2_16-branch and the related tags,
> like binutils-2_16-branchpoint, binutils-2_16, binutils-2_16_1. On some
> files, binutils-2_16-branchpoint was set on a revision in 2007, but
> binutils-2.16 was released in 2005. On such files, there are no
> binutils-2_16 or binutils-2_16_1 tags. This occurs for some files in
> binutils (dwarf.c, dwarf.h, etc.) and opcodes (bfin-dis.c, i386-opc.c,
> etc.) and maybe more others.
Looks like these files should not have the binutils-2_16-branchpoint tag
at all. Apparently the tag was added on or after 2007-07-24
(binutils/i386-gen.c has the latest revision for this tag).
Andreas.
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