looking for pointers to latest binutils and other necessities

looking for pointers to latest binutils and other necessities

[Paul Koning]

Could someone post a pointer to a suitably new version of binutils?
I've seen mention of a development snapshot (971023) and also to
versions like 2.8.1.0.15.  But no pointers...

I've been trying to do a build of a large embedded system using the
latest egcs snapshot (partly to answer the question that was posed
about code size).  So far I can't get it to work.  The newest linker I
have (2.8.1) crashes trying to build the image; an older linker (2.6)
does run but spits out thousands of messages of the form "Warning:
type of symbol `test_sysName' changed from 1 to 2 in sys_aaf.o".
(What does that mean, anyway?)  And the resulting image crashes in a
strange way that I haven't been able to sort out.

So I want to redo the test with sufficiently up to date tools.  By the
way, it might be useful to have pointers on the egcs webpage.

Thanks,
	paul

Re: looking for pointers to latest binutils and other necessities

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 9710311848.AA26744@kona. >you write:
  > Could someone post a pointer to a suitably new version of binutils?
  > I've seen mention of a development snapshot (971023) and also to
  > versions like 2.8.1.0.15.  But no pointers...
I think HJ just announced its availability...

jeff

Re: looking for pointers to latest binutils and other necessities

[H.J. Lu]

> 
> 
>   In message < 9710311848.AA26744@kona. >you write:
>   > Could someone post a pointer to a suitably new version of binutils?
>   > I've seen mention of a development snapshot (971023) and also to
>   > versions like 2.8.1.0.15.  But no pointers...
> I think HJ just announced its availability...
> 

Binutils 2.8.1.0.15 is mainly for x86 and ELF versioning. I don't
thinking it has been well tested on other platforms.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)