mips binutils after 2001-08-03 build incorrect kernel

[Richard Sandiford]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:24:40AM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> > it seems mips binutils after 08-03 build an incorrect kernel(symptom:
> > Indy freezes just after tftping the kernel). It seems the following is
> > causing most of the problems:
> > 
> > 2001-08-03  Richard Sandiford  <rsandifo@redhat.com>
> > 
> >         * config/tc-mips.c (md_apply_fix): Don't subtract the symbol
> >         value from GPREL addends.
> > 
> > So when I revert this one like:
> >
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Things get much better(boots straight to userspace).

It'd be really helpful if you could give an example of the kind of
difference this change makes.  Could you do a binary diff on the
kernel's object files before and after reverting the patch and find out
which ones changed?

Richard