binutils broken?

[H . J . Lu]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 04:33:35PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> HJ,
>    Franz Sirl hasn't reported this yet because he doesn't understand
> the cause yet but he believes binutils 2.11.92.0.10 is broken on ppc.
> He sees over 100 new failures on gcc3 on entropy and I believe 2 new
> g++ failures on gcc 2.95.4. Has anyone rebuilt gcc 2.95.4 or gcc 3.0.2
> under binutils 2.11.92.0.10 on any arches and done a check for new
> failures? I am also very puzzled by the problems that Mark Mitchell 
> is having with ppc...
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2001-10/msg00367.html
> 
> It is unclear from that what binutils Mark is using. I think it
> might be a go idea for all arches to double check their gcc's 
> with the current binutils.

Alan mentioned that mrg@redhat.com's PPC change brake some PPC targets.
See

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-10/msg00473.html



H.J.