Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2020 13:17:32 -0500 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r356379 - head/share/mk Message-ID: <CAPyFy2BG4ctkn2AWhvFyAeB1R6aZo=HXcRASOUT4dzsHiust0w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200106.025257.202876441661893679.yasu@utahime.org> References: <202001051659.005GxOOa013759@repo.freebsd.org> <CAPyFy2CvVQ8e8rRvHsB76qNz2_eL8c1EMpKP0z2vCbfWPn10hg@mail.gmail.com> <CANCZdfqVFoY%2ByaTK4OXPPLfeYH8Xz%2B-mqQ0nhQrROn_g74pNMQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200106.025257.202876441661893679.yasu@utahime.org>
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On Sun, 5 Jan 2020 at 12:53, Yasuhiro KIMURA <yasu@utahime.org> wrote: > > Just out of curiosity, is there any retirement plan for binutils in > base system at the moment? There's no specific plan, but it is an ongoing goal. Only three binutils tools are used (for bootstrapping and in the installed system): as, ld, and objdump. BINUTILS_BOOTSTRAP is enabled on x86, 32-bit arm, and powerpc. At least both x86 archs still use GNU as for a few files; there's work in progress to migrate to Clang's IAS for all assembly files. I am not sure if bootstrap as actually gets used on arm or powerpc. objdump is also built, but not used on any arch. ld is built on powerpc and still being used there; it's not built on x86 or 32-bit arm. Making further progress depends on lld maturing (for powerpc) and addressing the assembler issue. There's no commitment to removing binutils for 13.0 but there is a reasonable probability we'll be able to do so.
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