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Re: Raise minimum Binutils version? Was: [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup: use actual power8 assembly mnemonics
- From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
- To: Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at ascii dot art dot br>
- Cc: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Raoni Fassina Firmino <raoni at linux dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 10:23:25 +0200
- Subject: Re: Raise minimum Binutils version? Was: [PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup: use actual power8 assembly mnemonics
- References: <20190627184417.4118-1-raoni@linux.ibm.com> <5d670a77-fbb1-56b8-396a-89cdf56d87a3@linaro.org> <87o92dcyds.fsf@linux.ibm.com>
* Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho:
> I have no problem with that, but looking at the logs, GNU Binutils >= 2.25
> started to be required in June 2017, immediately before glibc release 2.26.
> That is commit 073e8fa7739e.
>
> Should glibc start to require a newer Binutils?
I don't have a problem with increasing the binutils version personally,
but feedback received for a make version increase was that we should
ideally do it at the beginning of a cycle.
Thanks,
Florian