Problem with exception handling on x86 / am using "as" version2.9.1

[Marc Espie]

In article < Pine.LNX.4.10.10002201512580.10014-100000@mullet.itr.unisa.edu.au > you write:
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>On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Marc Espie wrote:
>Laugh.  For current CVS binutils, x86 is probably the best tested flavour,
>thanks mainly to HJ Lu's snapshot releases for linux.  Use his latest
>release with confidence, especially if it's been there for a few weeks. ;-)
>ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils/

Apparently, you missed the `not-linux' part. Also, you seem to believe I
can live happily which something which is x86 tested, but probably flies
daemons thru a power-pc... and is reasonably useless for quite a few 
combination.

Oh well, I can summarize the problem...
Want binutils. Not Linux -> good luck. Not ELF -> you can die.

It's obvious Linux people couldn't care LESS about a new binutils release.

They have H.J.Lu and his wonderful snapshots... 

I don't mean to say that what he does is not great work. Is it beneficial or
harmful to the larger community of free OSes and even (gasp !) hostile 
commercial environments ? Hum... good question.

Go and try updating a multiple-processor OS to a recent snapshot of binutils,
you'll have a better look from my point of view...