Next release

[Stephane Carrez]

Hi Daniel,

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 09:35:20PM +0200, Stephane Carrez wrote:
> 
>>Hi Daniel,
>>
>>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>>Binutils version 2.13.2.1 was released three months ago today.  That tells
>>>me that we're about do for 2.14.  I know there are a couple major
>>>instabilities and unsettled issues right now; if you know any in particular
>>>that you would want resolved before a release please tell me.  Similarly if
>>>you have any interesting features you're planning to contribute soon, etc. 
>>>When I've got a handle on how much needs to settle down before we can
>>>branch, I'll post a schedule.
>>>
>>
>>I have a (big) pending work on HC11/HC12 that I made on 2.12.1 and want to
>>report on 2.14.  It factorizes the bfd HC11/HC12 code and implements
>>HC11/HC12 trampoline generation during a final link.  It is fully functional
>>on 2.12.1 but I must convert a number of things due to the bfd changes
>>(symbols is what comes to my mind).
>>
>>Depending on your schedule I'll try to do this during the next 2 weeks
>>but if you give us a little bit more time I'll definately appreciate.
> 
> 
> Hi Stephane,
> 
> Any progress?  Given the current state of the tree, I'm considering a
> release branch in the next week or so.  I've still got my eye on the
> pending -J patch for windres.
> 
Yes.  I have the following patchs in my queue:

  - one for ld to support trampoline generation on HC11/HC12
    (new emultempl/m68hc1xelf.em file); I'll commit it today.

  - one for bfd to merge various bfd/elf HC11/HC12 functions from
    elf32-m68hc11.c/elf32-m68hc12.c in a single file 'elf32-m68hc1x.c'
    I'll send the patch today and commit it on monday if it's ok

  - one for bfd to cleanup elf32-m68hc11.c/elf32-m68hc12.c to use the
    shared file (also updates Makefile.am, configure.in to compile the
    new file);  I'll send the patch today and commit on monday.

  - one for ld to use the new emultempl HC11/HC12 file together
    with the bfd part.  Send today, commit on monday.

So, if everything goes well I should have everything by this monday.

	Stephane