2.22.1 Possible -> Yes!

Doug Kwan (關振德) dougkwan@google.com
Thu Apr 26 17:37:00 GMT 2012


There are both binutils-2_22_branch and binutils-2_22-branch.  Which
branch should I check in my patches?

-Doug

$ cvs status -v ChangeLog | grep branch:
	binutils-2_22_branch     	(branch: 1.1006.4)
	gdb_7_4-branch           	(branch: 1.1012.2)
	binutils-2_22-branch     	(branch: 1.1006.2)
	gdb_7_3-branch           	(branch: 1.983.2)
	binutils-2_21-branch     	(branch: 1.938.2)
       ....




On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Doug Kwan (關振德) <dougkwan@google.com> wrote:
> I have some ARM gold patches I will commit them today.
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 9:29 PM, Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Apr 26, 2012, at 3:28 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 25 April 2012 09:18:15 Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>>> Tristan you mentioned that you are not sure there will
>>>> be a 2.22.1.  Does that mean 2.23 is close or that
>>>> you don't see enough issues to justify 2.22.1?
>>>
>>> fwiw, ppc32 is pretty badly hosed in the 2.22 release.  just about every ELF
>>> produced includes TEXTRELs.  the fix for it is already in the 2.22 branch.
>>>
>>> hppa32 has incorrect TLS relocation behavior, and plt/ifunc behavior -- also
>>> kind of bad.  the fixes are already in the 2.22 branch.
>>>
>>> s390x fails to build, but that isn't technically a regression from 2.21, so
>>> maybe not a big deal.
>>>
>>> so might be nice to have a 2.22.1 release i think :).
>>
>> Ok, I will make a 2.22.1 release.
>>
>> If anyone has patches to backport, please speak up.
>>
>> Tristan.
>>



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