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Re: binutils-2.16 news
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:50 +0930, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:16:11PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 10:39 +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > > >>+ h8300-*-coff
> > > >>+ h8300-*-rtems*
> > > >
> > > > Does this mean you are going to remove the entire h8 series or why are
> > > > you planning to remove these 2 targets?
> > >
> > > No, the h8300-elf port is still going to be valid. It is just that at
> > > the moment it looks like nobody wants to step up and champion the
> > > h8300-coff and h8300-rtems ports...
> > OK, I understand, the reason is coff?
>
> No, the reason is a non-BFD_ASSEMBLER gas port. I want to rip out all
> the old non-BFD_ASSEMBLER gas code, so unless the tc files are converted
> over to BFD_ASSEMBLER they will no longer compile.
Now, you've lost me.
AFAIU, this would affect h8300-*-elf, too, i.e. you'd be removing the
h8300 port as a whole.
Ralf