Danek Duvall wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:10:02PM -0400, Stefan Teleman wrote: > >> They do need to be in /usr/gnu/gcc4, because these binutils are specific >> to/for GCC4. We don't know what happens when we integrate GCC5. "Things" >> might not be backwards compatible with GCC4, and we most likely want to >> keep the older GCC4 version around for a while. > > I thought binutils was generally pretty good about backwards compatibility > -- that you could always have the latest version on your system and have it > work with the old compilers. Is that not actually the case, or is known > not to be the case in the future?
We don't know what will happen in the future. I am much less concerned about the binary utilities like objdump or objcopy, but I am concerned about future compatibility of the GNU assembler, which is currently required to build any bits on i386. --Stefan -- Stefan Teleman Sun Microsystems, Inc. Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM
