2.22.1 Possible -> Yes!

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 10:32:00 GMT 2012


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:55:34AM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:29:22PM +0200, Tristan Gingold wrote:
> > The 2.22 branch doesn't even build with current gcc.  Lots of set but
> > unused variable warnings.  I started fixed them all, and backporting
> > powerpc patches, then decided the whole process is just an incredible
> > waste of developer time.
> 
> I agree.  But we don't need to support gcc 4.7.  Binutils 2.22 was released in late 2011, so we tested only with gcc 4.6
> (There is still --disable-werror).
> To me this is not a stopper.

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit that I typoed my source dir..  The set
but unused vars were on 2.20 cvs, not 2.22 cvs.  2.22 has no problem
in this regard.  Apologies for the FUD.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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