announcement message for binutils?
Charles Wilson
cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Fri Sep 14 22:28:00 GMT 2001
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Ok, so what should I say in the binutils announcement message?
>
> Is this adequate?
>
> This version contains fixes to detect pathological conditions when
> the
????
> ld's auto-import option option cannot work properly. The previous
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
> version of ld silently produced buggy code. This version issues an
> error and suggests methods for dealing with the problem.
>
> This version also has a fix for a memory leak condition which caused
> ld (or is it dlltool?) to mushroom in size when producing large dlls.
ld.
With corrections, seems fine to me.
--Chuck
Totally off topic: I noticed that somebody submitted strtoll and
strtoull patches to newlib, so cygwin-1.3.4's scanf should transparently
support long long. (This is just supposition; I haven't tested it).
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