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Re: [PATCH] Fix PR target/6476
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 08:05:52AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> --On Monday, April 29, 2002 10:52:15 AM -0400 Jakub Jelinek
> <jakub@redhat.com> wrote:
> >Unfortunately 2.12.1 with this fix won't be out until mid-May I'm afraid,
> >plus H.J's binutils are there too, so test for ld version >= 2.12.1
> >doesn't work very well, when e.g. 2.12.90.0.{1,3,4} has the same problems
> >as 2.12 or 2.11.93.0.2 and 2.12.90.0.7 has it fixed as well as 2.12.1
> >will.
>
> That's bad, indeed. How helpful to have version numbers that cannot
> be compared with ">". We could, I suppose, special-case H.J.s stuff,
> and extract the right version number from that.
>
> Oh, well, check in your patch...
2.12.1 or date > something will work. H.J.'s binutils follows
CVS binutils trunk, which does
$ as --version
GNU assembler 2.12.90<some more here for HJ> 20020408
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