Bootstrap assembler issue

[H . J . Lu]

On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:54:28PM +0100, Neil Booth wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva wrote:-
> 
> > > monkey:build{28}$ as --version
> > > GNU assembler 2.11.90.0.1
> > 
> > Is this one of H.J. Lu's releases of binutils?  Perhaps it still
> > contains the bug, or has another variant of it?  Too bad :-(  Seems
> > like we may end up needing a real feature-test.
> 
> It's what comes with Debian unstable - I don't know beyond that :-)

2.11.90.0.1 doesn't have the bug fix. From the current 2.11.90.0.5
release note:

Changes from binutils 2.11.90.0.4:

1. Update from binutils 2001 0414.
2. Fix an ia64 assembler bug.
3. Change Linux/MIPS to use the SVR4 MIPS ABI instead of the IRIX ABI.
since there are no supports for the IRIX ABI in glibc. The current
Linux/MIPS targets are elf64-tradlittlemips for little endian MIPS
instead of elf32-littlemips and elf64-tradbigmips for big endian MIPS
instead of elf32-bigmips. Glibc, gcc and kernel may have to be modified
for this change. 

Changes from binutils 2.11.90.0.1:

1. Update from binutils 2001 0401.
2. Fix a gas bug for the gcc from the CVS main trunk. It involves some
changes in gas. I compiled kernel 2.2.18, gcc and glibc under
Linux/ia32. The resulting binaries work fine. 
3. Fix the linker core dump on unsupported ELF binaries.

It shows the bug is fixed AFTER 2.11.90.0.1. See

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-04/msg00051.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-04/msg00690.html


H.J.