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Re: gcc-2.95 build FAILED! - RedHat Linux/Alpha 5.2


Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com> writes:

>   In message <m33dy3b73j.fsf@vermis.bfr.co.il>you write:
>   > /tmp/cc2jzCeM.s:3711: Error: unknown opcode `sqrttsu'
>   > /tmp/cc2jzCeM.s:3781: Error: unknown opcode `sqrttsu'
> Your assembler is out of date.  Get a newer one.
> 
> jeff

But it was good enough three weeks ago, when gcc was in (apparent)
deep freeze! Is there any reason for losing backward compatibility in
such an abrupt way? Binutils is a major package we are definitely not
going to upgrade it unless such an upgrade is critical - we are
talking about production systems... This basically rules out
*previous* (read, "stable") release of a major Linux distribution...
:-(

-- 
Alexander L. Belikoff
Bloomberg L.P. / BFM Financial Research Ltd.
abel@vallinor4.com, abel@bfr.co.il

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