Re: Q: Estimated date for 2.16 release ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:36:11AM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> wrote:
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00489.html
> >
> > Eric Norum (cc'ed) recently narrowed it down to this construct:
> >
> > =============================================================
> > A little poking around reveals that it's the lines like:
> >
> > _RamBase = DEFINED(_RamBase) ? _RamBase : 0x0;
> > _RamSize = DEFINED(_RamSize) ? _RamSize : 0x7f0000;
> > _HeapSize = DEFINED(_HeapSize) ? _HeapSize : 0;   /* 0x20000;*/
> > _StackSize = DEFINED(_StackSize) ? _StackSize : 1M; /* 0x2000;*/
> >
> > that are killing ld.
> > ==============================================================
> >
> > Does this sound familiar?
> 
> Yes. :-(  The semantics of DEFINED has changed.  IIRC, my patch
> to announce that in ld/NEWS before 2.15 received no comments.
> The usage above should still work, though.
> 
> Can you open a PR with binutils-self-contained (only assembly
> files, no C or objects) test-case?  Maybe all was at the URL
> above, but I don't see the ld command line.  Still, please open
> a PR.

Was a PR ever created for this?  Has anyone looked at it?

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