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Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 22:00:00 -0000
From: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>,
	GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: problems with ctype...
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In-Reply-To: <200209170454.g8H4sPl03090@magilla.sf.frob.com>; from roland@redhat.com on Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:54:25PM -0700
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On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 09:54:25PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > They are real bugs exposed by glibc 2.3 and gcc 3.2. Please ask users
> > to upgrade binutils.
> 
> I think that is fine, we just need to be able to make it easy for users for
> be doing the right thing.  i.e. a configure check that will really prevent

You can take a look at the testcases I added to binutils. They are
vers23, vers22 and vers21 in ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers.

> people from attempting to use the losing tools.  Hopefully we can see a
> future GNU binutils release relatively soon so that we can have a clear,
> canonical, and official GNU, best version to refer to.

I don't think you can count on that unless they make a release for
every Linux bug fixed, which is what I have been doing with my Linux
binutils.


H.J.