[Proposed binutils PATCH] Re: Diagnosing an intricate C++ problem

[H . J . Lu]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
> >>FWIW, as far as I know, binutils 2.10 is too old and so many bugs
> >>have been fixed since then.
> >
> >Here's hoping that binutils next release won't have to wait for another
> >three years...
> 
> My plan is to make 2.10.1 in a few weeks, and 2.11 at the end of the year.
> 
> If H.J can be more specific about which bugs he is having trouble with, we can 
> consider including the fixes in 2.10.1.
> 

All ELF and Linux related bug fixes are important to Linux. On the
other hand, it takes me much less time to fix the current CVS than
backport all those patches to 2.10.  Please don't do it for Linux. We
have to use the one based on the current sourceware.

BTW, I have posted an ELF/PPC patch which is needed for glibc 2.2. I
have included a newer vesion in my binutils 2.10.0.24:

2000-08-23  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>

        * elf32-ppc.c (ppc_elf_relocate_section): Symbols with the non
        default visibility in DSO need relocation.

Without it, glibc 2.2 under PPC won't work with the ELF visibility.


H.J.