> -Original Message-
> From: Gerald Pfeifer [mailto:ger...@pfeifer.com]
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2017 7:38 AM
> To: gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org; Moore, Catherine
> <catherine_mo...@mentor.com>; Matthew Fortune
> <matthew.fort...@imgtec.com>
> Subject: install.texi and mips-*-* (was: Target maintainers: doc/install.texi
> love and care)
>
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2017, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> > References to dependencies on really, really old versions of
> > binutils (talking 10+ years here) which I think we can remove.
> > Let me follow-up with some of you with concrete suggestions
> > around that.
>
> The mips-*-* currently has this:
>
> The assembler from GNU binutils 2.17 and earlier has a bug in the way
> it sorts relocations for REL targets (o32, o64, EABI). This can cause
> bad code to be generated for simple C++ programs. Also the linker
> from GNU binutils versions prior to 2.17 has a bug which causes the
> runtime linker stubs in very large programs to
> be incorrectly generated. GNU Binutils 2.18 and later (and snapshots
> made after Nov. 9, 2006) should be free from both of these problems.
>
> (Even that goes back more than 10 years.)
>
> Okay to yank it?
Yes, thank you. I will review the rest of the MIPS doc in install.texi this
week.
Catherine
