binutils 2.9 branch created

Wed Apr 1 11:02:00 GMT 1998

On Wed, 1 April 1998, 15:11:40, manfred@s-direktnet.de wrote:

 > I just checked the gas-980331 snapshot on these configurations:
 > 
 >   - hppa1.1-hp-hpux10.20
 >   - m68k-motorola-sysv (aka `delta')
 >   - m88k-motorola-sysv3 (aka `delta88')
 >   - sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1
 >   - sparc-sun-sunos4.1.4
 > 
 > I didn't observe any problem!

But, on i586-linux-gnulibc1 building current  egcs snapshot (from CVS)
fails (stage1/cc1 is calling abort  while compiling getopt.c)!   Using
H.J. Lu's binutils-2.8.1.0.15 instead doesn't show such problems!

Unfortunately, I have no idea what's going on.