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Re: binutils 2.21.1 release?


On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:30 AM, Alan Modra wrote:

> Is a 2.21.1 release planned soon?

Not soon.  I even wasn't sure to do a 2.21.1 release, as nobody asked and there weren't any major regression.

But I like the idea of making one that coincide with GCC 4.6.0, as suggested by DaveK (unless 2.22 comes before).

> How do you feel about the following collection of backports?

Long list :-)  But I am ok with that.  Will you take care of backporting ?

>  This
> brings non-target parts of 2.21 reasonably up to date with current
> mainline, with the exception of gold.  Some of the patches don't do
> much (formatting, refactoring) but the idea behind applying them is
> simply to make it easier to apply later mainline patches on 2.21.

Ok.

> I've mostly avoided target-specific patches because I figure it's up
> to target maintainers to push them as they see necessary.

Ok.

> The bug fixes I really want to see in a 2.21.1 release are my fixes to
> ld script expression handling.

Ok.

Tristan.


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