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Release 2.21 - rough schedule

Maciej W. Rozycki macro@linux-mips.org
Wed Sep 22 22:58:00 GMT 2010 
On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Richard Sandiford wrote:

> Talking about deprecation, I wonder if anyone uses the non-ELF MIPS
> ports with up-to-date binutils?  mips-ecoff has had terrible testresults
> for a while, but I've no idea whether the failures are benign.

 At least the capability to `objcopy' to ecoff-*mips has to stay for the 
sake of some old systems' firmware requiring that format for boot images 
(though some may prefer the `elf2ecoff' tool lurking around).  Therefore 
I'd expect a need for the BFD target to stay for the foreseeable future; 
the rest may or may not be required -- AFAIR DEC Ultrix support was 
dropped from GCC a while ago; can't say about SGI IRIX or MIPSCO systems.

 That written I may well see if I can find some time to have a look into 
these ECOFF failures; I have planned to do some ECOFF testing having had 
seen some changes to relocation matching patterns that were a bit too 
aggressive IMO.

  Maciej
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