Re: [MiNT] binutils 2.21

[Keith Scroggins <kws@radix.net>]

Thanks Vincent!

I will see if I have time to try to build a native RPM package of it this 
weekend, although this is a ScummVM release (well, build tagged source and 
test) weekend, so I am not sure if I'll get to it!

Again, thanks!

Keith

On Fri, 10 Dec 2010, Vincent Rivière wrote:

> Hello.
>
> The binutils 2.21 have just been released. I have updated the MiNT patch and 
> rebuilt all the MiNT cross-tools for Cygwin/Ubuntu. As usual, everything is 
> available here:
> http://vincent.riviere.free.fr/soft/m68k-atari-mint/
>
> Someone had discovered a cousin of the "cout bug" in gas for a.out targets, 
> it has been fixed in this version. This bug occurred when there was a 
> relative reference (bsr, etc.) to a defined weak symbol. This bug was very 
> serious, because wrong code was generated, but I think it was a very rare 
> situation, maybe never actually hit. Anyway, I have rebuilt everything with 
> these new binutils, to be sure all is OK.
>
> That's all - no big news.
> GCC 4.5.2 will be out in some weeks, stay tuned.
>
> --
> Vincent Rivière