[PATCH] Update of minimal required version of Binutils to 2.25

Joseph Myers joseph@codesourcery.com
Wed Jun 10 10:48:00 GMT 2015


On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, Andrew Senkevich wrote:

> I have configure check for AVX512 assembler support, but this is the
> case when some AVX512 instructions with zmm registers not supported by
> Binutils 2.24, with which that confugure check passed. So we need 2.25
> for support of these several instructions, which appears in SKX
> versions of vector math functions.

I'd say make the configure check stricter so that it fails with 2.24, 
rather than putting .byte encodings of instructions in more places than 
necessary.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com



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