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From: Marc Espie <espie@quatramaran.ens.fr>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Proposed binutils PATCH] Re: Diagnosing an intricate C++ problem
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2000 12:10:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200009031910.VAA16344@quatramaran.ens.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20000903111111.A8315@lucon.org>

In article < 20000903111111.A8315@lucon.org > you write:
>On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
>> >>FWIW, as far as I know, binutils 2.10 is too old and so many bugs
>> >>have been fixed since then.

>> >Here's hoping that binutils next release won't have to wait for another
>> >three years...

>> My plan is to make 2.10.1 in a few weeks, and 2.11 at the end of the year.

>> If H.J can be more specific about which bugs he is having trouble
>with, we can 
>> consider including the fixes in 2.10.1.


>All ELF and Linux related bug fixes are important to Linux. On the
>other hand, it takes me much less time to fix the current CVS than
>backport all those patches to 2.10.  Please don't do it for Linux. We
>have to use the one based on the current sourceware.

Please do it for other platforms. Not every system has an over-eager
H.J.Lu churning bug-fixed after bug-fixed release of binutils...

  reply	other threads:[~2000-09-03 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200007250811.DAA35595@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com>
     [not found] ` <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009021957530.89194-100000@taygeta.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
     [not found]   ` <20000902113513.A1131@lucon.org>
2000-09-03  8:33     ` Marc Espie
2000-09-03  9:42       ` Philip Blundell
2000-09-03 11:11         ` H . J . Lu
2000-09-03 12:10           ` Marc Espie [this message]
2000-09-03 12:59             ` Zack Weinberg
2000-09-04  8:55               ` H . J . Lu
2000-09-04 15:07 Mark Kettenis
2000-09-04 17:01 ` H . J . Lu
2000-09-05 18:32   ` Joe Buck

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