Am 02.03.2011 14:01, schrieb Marco van de Voort: > In our previous episode, Tomas Hajny said: >>> Ok. Then I don't know why they are stuck at 2.15, I got that answer then >>> (at >>> the Fosdem LLVM talk), but didn't check it further. I'll ask around. >>> >>> But anyway, 8.2 is days old, so migrating to 2.17 is for now not an >>> option, >>> and the "db" solution will have to be implemented anyway. >> >> FWIW, I had to do something similar in i386/mmx.pp (femms instruction) in >> the past due to AS version available for OS/2 at that time. > > Yes. But that is about way older binutils. OpenBSD had some too before 3.4 > (when they were a.out) > > I asked around, and FreeBSD 9 will migrate to 2.17.50 (+patches). But they > usually don't change toolchains much within stable versions, and FreeBSD7 is > supported till 2013, so FreeBSD8 even longer probably, so we will have to > live with it. Luckily it is a freakish instruction with only one > occurance. x86_64 is FreebSD8 plus (I have no idea how it fares on -7, it > might be that it just works and that the porter did it)
Good reason to fix the elf64 writer for FreeBSD :)? _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
