Re: Release 2.21 - Soon...

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>]

Steve,

> I have submitted a binutils defect report for this problem,
> http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12287, and included what 
> information I have so far.  I can show the problem using a small C++
> program and their are two new failures in the GAS testsuite that show up
> with this change.  The problem definitely starts with this checkin:
> 
> 2010-12-01  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@codesourcery.com>
> 
>         * symbols.h (dot_symbol): New declaration.
>         (dot_symbol_init): New prototype.
>         * symbols.c (dot_symbol): New variable.
>         (symbol_clone): Assert it's not dot_symbol being cloned.
>         (dot_symbol_init): New function.
>         (symbol_clone_if_forward_ref): Create a new temporary symbol
>         when trying to clone dot_symbol.
>         * expr.c (current_location): Refer to dot_symbol instead of
>         making a new temporary symbol.
>         * read.c (read_a_source_file): Update dot_symbol as we go.
>         * as.c (main): Call dot_symbol_init.
> 
> But I don't know what is causing the change.

 Let me know if the problem you saw has gone now and I'll mark your report 
as a duplicate of PR gas/12282 if so.  The change affected 
config/tc-arm.c, config/tc-ia64.c and cgen.c, so the platforms that 
suffered were ARM and IA-64 as well as those using CGEN; hopefully they 
all have been cured now.  Sorry about the original mess-up.

  Maciej