From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11046 invoked by alias); 22 Sep 2010 22:58:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 11037 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Sep 2010 22:58:10 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from eddie.linux-mips.org (HELO cvs.linux-mips.org) (78.24.191.182) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:58:06 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([127.0.0.1]:52885 "EHLO localhost.localdomain" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by eddie.linux-mips.org with ESMTP id S1491197Ab0IVW6C (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Sep 2010 00:58:02 +0200 Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 22:58:00 -0000 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" To: Richard Sandiford cc: binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Release 2.21 - rough schedule In-Reply-To: <87lj6tpocq.fsf@firetop.home> Message-ID: References: <48A902C2-D801-401E-8FC1-3E5179D66B70@adacore.com> <20100918025913.GG16874@bubble.grove.modra.org> <1284997687.13878.32.camel@e102346-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20100921003158.GL16874@bubble.grove.modra.org> <87lj6tpocq.fsf@firetop.home> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact binutils-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: binutils-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-09/txt/msg00387.txt.bz2 On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote: > Talking about deprecation, I wonder if anyone uses the non-ELF MIPS > ports with up-to-date binutils? mips-ecoff has had terrible testresults > for a while, but I've no idea whether the failures are benign. At least the capability to `objcopy' to ecoff-*mips has to stay for the sake of some old systems' firmware requiring that format for boot images (though some may prefer the `elf2ecoff' tool lurking around). Therefore I'd expect a need for the BFD target to stay for the foreseeable future; the rest may or may not be required -- AFAIR DEC Ultrix support was dropped from GCC a while ago; can't say about SGI IRIX or MIPSCO systems. That written I may well see if I can find some time to have a look into these ECOFF failures; I have planned to do some ECOFF testing having had seen some changes to relocation matching patterns that were a bit too aggressive IMO. Maciej