binutils 2.8.1.0.20

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> I think this release might be a bit buggy.
> 
> This compiling octave 2.0.9.98:
> 
> g77 -c -fPIC -O3 scaleg.f -o pic/scaleg.o
> /tmp/cca19344.s: Assembler messages:
> /tmp/cca19344.s:135: Error: unrecognized characters `@GOTOFF(%ebx)' in expression

I was told that the old binutils and g77/gcc were wrong on that.
I understand both binutils and g77/gcc are fixed in the latest
version. Ian, Richard, am I right? BTW, can Richard's patch
go into 1.0.2?

Ian, Richard, did the old binutils and g77/gcc generate working binary
on that?

> 
> the latest snapshot of glibc from alpha.gnu.org and several other things seem
> to fail in the asm declaration.

I have used binutils 2.8.1.0.20 on the latest glibc snaphot. It
is ok. BTW, the latest one is at ftp.kernel.org.

> 
> binutils 2.8.1.0.15 is okay.
> 
> --
> John GOTTS <jgotts@engin.umich.edu> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jgotts
> 

Thanks.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)