quality of IA-64 bits in 2.11

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:50:43AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:17:11AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Are there known [semi-serious]
> > bugs in the 2.11 branch that have fixed in the HEAD but not merged into
> > the 2.11 branch?
> 
> Yes, and not just ia64 specific.
> 
> I suspect that most people using ia64 binutils either use sources.redhat.com
> CVS trunk, or one of H.J. Lu's binutils releases (effectively a CVS
> snapshot with a few of HJ's patches).  HJ's releases provide some
> insulation from CVS trunk instability, but will have all the latest fixes.
> 
> I'd like to see a 2.12 release branch soon.

For what my opininion is worth, seconded.  There's been a lot of
development since the 2.11 branch.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer