binutils broken?

[H . J . Lu]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 12:27:06PM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 02:25:54PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> > 
> > Alan mentioned that mrg@redhat.com's PPC change brake some PPC targets.
> > See
> > 
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2001-10/msg00473.html
> 
> I suppose I should have given details.  The problem is that gcc now
> needs to pass -m403 (or -m405) to gas for these particular targets to
> enable 403 specific insns.  Previously, gcc used to pass -mppc and
> gas accepted 403 instructions under the general umbrella of -mppc.
> 
> I don't think this change has anything to do with powerpc-linux failures.
> If it turns out to be a binutils problem, I'm more likely to be the
> guilty party with my 2001-09-29 bfd change, which wasn't fixed until
> 2001-10-15.

binutils 2.11.92.0.10 is based on 2001-10-21 CVS.


H.J.