Cleanups for the m68k backend

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 12:37:09AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> > We also have toolchain speed issues. Switching to a brand new toolchain
> > (and a slow one) is a hard decision, if it means having build time jump
> > from 3 days to one week on a m68k machine.
>
>   Thats what I have observed too: the overhead of BFD-based binutils
>   is very large :-/ For an already slow platform compared to current
>   standards thats a pain.

Do you mean overhead to build or that recent gas and ld are
slow?  If the latter, follow-up to binutils@sources.redhat.com
with your observations, please.

brgds, H-P