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Re: quality of IA-64 bits in 2.11

To: GNU Binutils mailing list <binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: quality of IA-64 bits in 2.11
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 20:42:00 -0400
Cc: David O'Brien <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
References: <20011023111711.A50759@dragon.nuxi.com> <20011025095043.W1037@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au>

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:50:43AM +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 11:17:11AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > Are there known [semi-serious]
> > bugs in the 2.11 branch that have fixed in the HEAD but not merged into
> > the 2.11 branch?
> 
> Yes, and not just ia64 specific.
> 
> I suspect that most people using ia64 binutils either use sources.redhat.com
> CVS trunk, or one of H.J. Lu's binutils releases (effectively a CVS
> snapshot with a few of HJ's patches).  HJ's releases provide some
> insulation from CVS trunk instability, but will have all the latest fixes.
> 
> I'd like to see a 2.12 release branch soon.

For what my opininion is worth, seconded.  There's been a lot of
development since the 2.11 branch.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

References:
- quality of IA-64 bits in 2.11
  - From: David O'Brien
- Re: quality of IA-64 bits in 2.11
  - From: Alan Modra

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