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Re: binutils-2.19.90 snapshot is available


Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 04:26:26PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 02:16:48PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>>>> I think that the problem is caused by the fix for PR 6945, change 1.296
>>>>> to ldlang.c:
>>>> Well spotted, thank you! Let's see if there's another way to fix that
>>>> problem without this undesirable side-effect.
>>> This is a little brute-force but it seems to get closer to desired
>>> behavior:
>>>
>>> Index: ldlang.c
>> Seems sane to me.  It works by resetting the VMA after it's been used
>> in lang_size_sections_1 and the subsequent size calculations rather
>> than zeroing it out before these are done, yes?
> 
> Yes.  I tried to do the zero first and then do the size calculations
> using temporary values but couldn't get it quite right.  I was afraid of
> impacting non-COFF too.

  Right.  The one remaining thing I want to make particularly sure is that
this change doesn't impact any targets that use relocatable object files
directly (AFAIK I'm basically talking about vxworks here, if there are indeed
any vxworks-coff targets).

>> My computer is pretty loaded right now but I'll be able to put it
>> through a thorough test cycle against loads of targets tomorrow.
>> Tristan, can we put this on the branch?  What's your timescale for
>> finalising the release now?
> 
> If this passes your tests I'll make a new cygwin release regardless but
> I'd like to make a release from the sanctioned version of binutils at
> some point.

  2.20 looks like it might be a good point to do that.  Do you have any
remaining distro-local patches to binutils or will it be possible to use this
one completely clean OOTB?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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