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Re: gcc-2.95 build FAILED! - RedHat Linux/Alpha 5.2
- To: abel@bfr.co.il (Alexander L. Belikoff)
- Subject: Re: gcc-2.95 build FAILED! - RedHat Linux/Alpha 5.2
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
- Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 18:32:17 -0600
- cc: egcs@egcs.cygnus.com
- Reply-To: law@cygnus.com
In message <m3wvvf9ptb.fsf@vermis.bfr.co.il>you write:
> 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...
The assembler is broken, plain and simple. Get a newer one. There may be
a way to disable those instructions, but I wouldn't know what it is since
I do not normally work on alphas,
jeff