binutils 2.9.5.0.8 is released.

Etienne Lorrain etienne.lorrain@ibm.net
Tue Aug 31 23:20:00 GMT 1999


 Hello,

> Please report any bugs related to binutils 2.9.5.0.8 to hjl@lucon.org.

  No more problem for me, it is assembling correctly all my real mode
 stuff, and the linker is correct.

  I have written previously, and I was wrong, this extract:

>  I noticed a feature with my software (gujin) on the linker side.
> This exists on RH 6 version of binutils and your lattest snapshot,
> but was not present on standart RH 5 distributions (early binutils-2.9.1).
>
>  Simply, it is a gap of 0x10 bytes out of sections, i.e. in between
> .code and .data - and it seems to be unvolumtary (i.e. no alignment
> needed because it is already aligned).

  I did not understand then that sections (.code, .data) are now
 aligned to 0x20 (i.e. 32 bytes) with the new linker - instead of
 0x10 - and so my "out of section" gap was just an alignment stuff.

  I hope to have this binutils in major distributions soon!

  Thanks,
  Etienne.

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