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

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 12:07:31AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
> Bullshit.  Binutils 2.10 is perfecty usable on Linux/x86.  Sure, it
> has some bugs, but most of them are in dark corners of gas or ld.  The

They may be dark corners for you. But they may be show stoppers for
those Linix developers who are affected.

> I strongly suspect it isn't "needed" for glibc 2.2 except when you're
> using the mainline GCC.  Building glibc 2.2 for Linux/x86 or the Hurd
> with GCC 2.95.2 works fine, except that one test will fail because of

gcc 2.95.2 didn't work with glibc 2.2 for me and many other people.
I guess you know Red Hat will ship a gcc snapshot with upcoming
RedHat 7.0. Do you have a recommendation for binutils in RedHat 7.0?



H.J.