From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id fBDLk0F00981 for linux-mips-outgoing; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:46:00 -0800 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with ESMTP id fBDLjvo00978 for ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 13:45:57 -0800 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) id fBDKjga09826; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:45:42 -0200 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:45:42 -0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Kip Walker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: .section problems in entry.S Message-ID: <20011213184541.A7171@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20011209221835.A11737@dea.linux-mips.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:03:41PM +0100 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 05:03:41PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > > Certainly not. The problem is known and so far I've just hacked around > > it more or less elegant. But it's a trap and so I think we've got good > > reasons to force people to upgrade to a newer assembler than the current > > minimal version. The question is which - I don't like frequent tool > > upgrades. > > There are no working released binutils for a modern MIPS/Linux system, > AFAIK. However, version 2.11.92 from the CVS seems to work reasonably > well now, so chances are the next release will do as well. Maybe 2.12 > will be a good candidate then, once it is released and tested a bit. What is the schedule for 2.12? Ralf