Re: Release 2.21.1 ?

[Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>]

On Mar 16, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 15, 2011 04:21:37 Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> [ I think that not all patches have been back-ported, so do not hesitate to
>> ping me ]
> 
> my understanding is that binutils-2.21 does not build a relocatable x86 
> kernel, but this commit from master fixes it:
> http://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils.git;a=commit;h=5daebc6a6606a30e60716f5bdee3d2018b560e8e
> 
> so that'd be a good one to backport if a new release is done

This patch is supposed to be in 2.21:

	2010-12-20  Alan Modra  <amodra@gmail.com>
	PR ld/12327
	* ld.texinfo (Expression Section): Describe treatment of numbers
	and absolute symbols.
	* ldemul.c (after_open_default): Look up __ld_compatibility.
	* ldexp.c (fold_name): Convert absolute symbols to numbers when
	inside output section definitions, or when __ld_compatibility >= 221.
	(exp_fold_tree_1): Convert numbers to absolute when not in output
	section definition and __ld_compatibility < 221.  Don't always
	convert values outside an output section definition to absolute.
	* ldexp.h (uses_defined): Comment.
	* ldlang.c (ld_compatibility): New variable.
	* ldlang.h (ld_compatibility): Declare.
	* emultempl/aix.em, * emultempl/armcoff.em, * emultempl/beos.em,
	* emultempl/elf32.em, * emultempl/genelf.em, * emultempl/lnk960.em,
	* emultempl/m68kcoff.em, * emultempl/mmo.em, * emultempl/pe.em,
	* emultempl/pep.em, * emultempl/sunos.em, * emultempl/z80.em: Call
	after_open_default from after_open function.

But it looks like it was only partially backported (chunks still apply to ldlang.[ch] and ldemul.c)

Alan ?

Tristan.