On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 03:50:04PM -0700, Danek Duvall 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?
I've seen gas complain about old gcc assembly before. It was a while ago, mind. regards john
