Biutils compatilibility breakage in 2.24 for PPC

Alan Modra amodra@gmail.com
Thu Apr 10 05:47:00 GMT 2014


On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 10:53:51PM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> Sure.  I'm pointing out that this is behavior, specified by an ABI
> document, that is supposed to be stable -- in the hopes that it will
> change your mind, or attract the attention of other binutils developers
> who find this problematic.  If it doesn't, then so be it.

You won't change my mind.  I quite clearly pointed out that I was
fixing an ABI hole, that will benefit large user apps.  The fact that
it breaks your booke kernel is unfortunate but unavoidable if we want
to keep the (changed) ABI consistent.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM



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