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Re: Stabilization status
- To: law at cygnus dot com, Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: Stabilization status
- From: Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>
- Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 09:14:32 +0100
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
- References: <17549.919064996@hurl.cygnus.com>
Am Mon, 15 Feb 1999 schrieb Jeffrey A Law:
>In message <99010521361700.01228@ns1102.munich.netsurf.de>you write:
> > I further investigated this and it seems to be a binutils problem. Michael
> > Meissners recent change to put things into .sbss instead of .sdata triggers
> > a bug in binutils-2.9.1.0.19a (and earlier probably). I built egcs with a
> > current gas snapshot without problems.
> >
> >
> > I would appreciate if someone could send the corresponding binutils fix to
> > H.J Lu, so he can include it in binutils-2.9.1.0.20.
>It occurs to me that we should probably have an FAQ entry on the need for a
>newer assembler on ppc-linux.
>
>Want to write one up and submit it?
>
>If you don't know html, then submitting plaintext is fine, it can be html-ized
>easily.
Yeah, I can write something up. Would you mind placing a gas-981227-ppc.tar.gz
into the infrastructure dir? Then I can hyperlink to it. Later/current snapshots
don't check well on the PPC. One, hopefully harmless :-), test will always fail,
cause -fdata-sections is not yet implemented in egcs for PPC.
Franz.