Re: [AArch64] Binutils/gas/ld port for ARM's new 64-bit architecture, AArch64 [3/6] bfd changes v2

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at arm dot com>]

On 08/08/12 10:56, Benedikt Schroefel wrote:
> Yufeng Zhang <Yufeng.Zhang <at> arm.com> writes:
> 
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Please find the updated patch that adds the bfd changes of the AArch64 
>> target support.
>>
>> The patch fixes
>>
>> * the empty initializer issue as mentioned in
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-07/msg00277.html
>>
>> * the missing parameter issue as mentioned in
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2012-07/msg00322.html
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Yufeng
>>
> 
> Hello Yufeng,
> 
> it seems that the patch 3/6 fails with the latest binutils
> (http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.22.tar.gz):
> 

This patch is against the development version of binutils (CVS trunk).
You can't expect it to work against a 10-month old version without rework.


R.

> user@linux:~/armv8/binutils$ patch -p 1 --dry-run < patch/aarch64_3_6_v2.patch
> 
> creates the following error messages:
> 
> Hunk #1 FAILED at 461.
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 484 (offset -21 lines).
> Hunk #3 succeeded at 565 (offset -26 lines).
> 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file bfd/archures.c.rej
> 
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 813 (offset -19 lines).
> Hunk #2 FAILED at 841.
> 1 out of 2 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file bfd/configure.in.rej
> 
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 5619 (offset -265 lines).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 6022 with fuzz 1 (offset -293 lines).
> Hunk #3 FAILED at 6507.
> 1 out of 3 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file bfd/reloc.c.rej
> 
> Which binutils version have you used to create the patch? Maybe 2.22 isn't the
> right one for this patch.
> 
> Thank you very much
> regards
> 
> Benedikt
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