> -----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
