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Q: Estimated date for 2.16 release ?

Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> joel.sherrill@OARcorp.com
Thu Feb 24 19:09:00 GMT 2005 
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:36:11AM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> wrote:
>>
>>>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00489.html
>>>
>>>Eric Norum (cc'ed) recently narrowed it down to this construct:
>>>
>>>=============================================================
>>>A little poking around reveals that it's the lines like:
>>>
>>>_RamBase = DEFINED(_RamBase) ? _RamBase : 0x0;
>>>_RamSize = DEFINED(_RamSize) ? _RamSize : 0x7f0000;
>>>_HeapSize = DEFINED(_HeapSize) ? _HeapSize : 0;   /* 0x20000;*/
>>>_StackSize = DEFINED(_StackSize) ? _StackSize : 1M; /* 0x2000;*/
>>>
>>>that are killing ld.
>>>==============================================================
>>>
>>>Does this sound familiar?
>>
>>Yes. :-(  The semantics of DEFINED has changed.  IIRC, my patch
>>to announce that in ld/NEWS before 2.15 received no comments.
>>The usage above should still work, though.
>>
>>Can you open a PR with binutils-self-contained (only assembly
>>files, no C or objects) test-case?  Maybe all was at the URL
>>above, but I don't see the ld command line.  Still, please open
>>a PR.
> 
> 
> Was a PR ever created for this?  Has anyone looked at it?

Not that I know of.

Eric.. if you have a .c file and simple linkcmds that produces this,
then just use the -S option to put together a binutils test case.

Thanks.

--joel
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