From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 13 14:48:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA14707 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:48:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from uni-kl.de (mmdf@stepsun.uni-kl.de [131.246.136.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA14696 for ; Tue, 13 Feb 1996 14:48:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from mater.student.uni-kl.de by stepsun.uni-kl.de id aa29901; 13 Feb 96 23:48 MET Received: by mater.student.uni-kl.de (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0tmTW7-0001cYC; Tue, 13 Feb 96 23:48 CET Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 23:48:11 +0100 (CET) From: Martin Heller To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Q: Somebody working on more recent binutils ? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi ! I'd like to know if someone is porting gas/ld 2.6 or 2.5.x ? To have a more recent gas/ld than the ones coming with the distribution is absolutely necessary for running g++ 2.7.2 andd libg++2.7.1 because g++ needs the .weak symbols in some circumstances to produce the 'right' code . If no weak labels can be used, very strange things can happen to arrays and classes. g++ 2.6.3 doesn't do the job, because I need the STL-conformant libg++2.7.1 (I think many others too !) :-((( . If nobody does it, is there any piece of information available, what's been changed in the sources to adopt gas/ld 1.x.x for FreeBSD ? Martin