Setting a date for the 2.31 branch

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 05:15:30PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> 
> >  Otherwise there's a single LD test failure only:
> > 
> > FAIL: DT_TEXTREL map file warning
> > 
> > which IIRC is just a case to be KFAILed, but I'll double-check.
> 
>  Indeed, for sections which have dynamic relocations attached the MIPS 
> backend sets SHF_WRITE, in `mips_elf_create_dynamic_relocation', yielding:
> 
> $ readelf -S textrel.so | grep rodata
>   [ 8] .rodata           PROGBITS        00000254 000254 000004 00  WA  0   0  1
> $
> 
>  This came from commit 7403cb6305f5 ("PATCH for N32 ABI"), 
> <https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/1999-q2/msg00375.html>, i.e. for all
> practical purposes it has been there since forever, and therefore I think 
> it can be considered a part of the ABI and the test case considered 
> irrelevant for MIPS targets.
> 
>  Alan, since you've done significant work in this area with commit 
> 63c1f59d6655 ("readonly_dynrelocs") and asked there for maintainer's 
> attention -- do you agree with my conclusion?

Yes, and I'm quite happy you are the one working on mips.  ;)

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM