Re: binutils upgradation

[CH DHIR NARASIMHA SWAMY <dheeruch at cmcltd dot com>]

Hi Nick,

>>            I am using a port of the standard GCC suite on a custom
>> RISC based processor. I'm looking for information on "How to upgrade
>> the binutils which is the component of our GNU C cross-compiler
>> suite  to the latest stable version 2.9.10".
>
>   a).  There is no such document.
>
>   b).  The latest stable version is 2.13.2
>
>   c).  In general later binutils releases are backwards compatible
>        with earlier binutils releases, so that they can be used as
> drop-in replacements.  Hence you should be able to download the
> sources, configure, compile and install them, update your PATH to
> point to the new installation, and everything should work.
>
> Cheers
>         Nick

      That is fine then. So can I directly include the latest version into
of my Cross-compiler suite without any modifications in the new
version.
Actually my doubt is whether there are any "architecture specific changes"
required to be done in the new version to support "my architecture"?
Are there any for binutils?
This I'm asking because i'm using a new RISC architecure.

Thanks & Regards
Dheeru.