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Re: GAS copyright update


In message <20000504105011.C1813@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 10:04:38AM +0100, Philip Blundell wrote:
>> IA-64 support will not be in binutils 2.10.  If you need this you will
>> have to use the trunk version or wait for binutils 2.11.
>
>Is the issue one of time?

Not really.  IA-64 wasn't added until after the 2.10 branch was forked.  I 
haven't actually looked into how intrusive the changes would be if we wanted 
to add it, but at this stage in the release cycle I really don't want to do 
that anyway.

>Since those using the IA-64 bits understand their beta/alpha status, I
>would not think people would expect as solid of bits as other
>architecures.

Then those using IA-64 can work from a snapshot of the trunk.

p.



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