Q: Estimated date for 2.16 release ?

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 03:40:59PM +0200, Tomer Levi wrote:
> 
>>Hi Nick,
>>
>>Is there any estimated date for the next Binutils formal release (version 
>>2.16) ?
>>We would like to plan our work accordingly.
> 
> 
> There is no plan yet.  I would like to branch sometime very soon; does
> anyone know of issues that need to be resolved before the next release?

With gcc 4.x coming, we have noticed that the problem Ralf
reported here happens on multiple targets.  I don't know
if it was ever addressed or not.

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00489.html

Eric Norum (cc'ed) recently narrowed it down to this construct:

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A little poking around reveals that it's the lines like:

_RamBase = DEFINED(_RamBase) ? _RamBase : 0x0;
_RamSize = DEFINED(_RamSize) ? _RamSize : 0x7f0000;
_HeapSize = DEFINED(_HeapSize) ? _HeapSize : 0;   /* 0x20000;*/
_StackSize = DEFINED(_StackSize) ? _StackSize : 1M; /* 0x2000;*/

that are killing ld.
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Does this sound familiar?

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