Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Mar 2011 12:03:39 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x? |
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On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> binutils 2.16 (and presumably its prereleases, binutils 2.15.9x) appears > to have more bugs than any other version of binutils released in modern > history, *before or after*. > > We chronically run into problems because that particular binutils > version breaks code that works fine elsewhere. > > I would like to know who would suffer from formally discontinuing > support for that version. I understand some version of SLES shipped it, > but I don't know for sure. >
I gave up and became a customer of http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/index_old.shtml
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