From owner-freebsd-toolchain@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 23 13:30:40 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: toolchain@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60E931065673 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from damjan.marion@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D85FF8FC17 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so1901464fxm.13 for ; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:30:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:subject:mime-version:content-type:from :in-reply-to:date:cc:content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references :to:x-mailer; bh=E4/mNYFljWySYJCMxnASWPsPa0zvfxw9XplTdmEJi5Q=; b=g3RuOT0uOlKeoOH98pRWNX5+W1V8UtKlstD/7E6WEXJIhmn7O71mQYUUHimuqU+s+2 QBREHiHqHmF0OLdIORFiplMa+fEYdprUASdL3bpbTg8ut/K3TO90pajo6D5N14W5ZfEh Wo7s4yK6PGkExbvHuKZfaELt0Cat40awyKmQs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=subject:mime-version:content-type:from:in-reply-to:date:cc :content-transfer-encoding:message-id:references:to:x-mailer; b=s6EyKzmfSKu9FsGUWPicGPDLm77yAvgrVy7mfwBxUrfwZznvILmFwk5crB3Bxe7YzY xTkewr7WVA0jVdBFZixUEtPwg1exHZL5HyDa8RAc6KLd6z0pGpUeal8EI71ftfy7314I VBpq5rFjBzzF1mIbc6s6BDxK+5ZfEMyVezFRg= Received: by 10.223.161.194 with SMTP id s2mr2651531fax.143.1308835838675; Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:30:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.123.4] (cpe-109-60-79-155.zg3.cable.xnet.hr [109.60.79.155]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w15sm989815faj.23.2011.06.23.06.30.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 23 Jun 2011 06:30:37 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Damjan Marion In-Reply-To: <744CFC2C-0F17-4AED-A54A-FC93EB885FAD@bsdimp.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:30:35 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <932AAF33-57B3-4E12-AA9B-4AD457377F1D@gmail.com> References: <0C35FE0F-3301-44C6-AC40-233F6C446EBC@gmail.com> <744CFC2C-0F17-4AED-A54A-FC93EB885FAD@bsdimp.com> To: Warner Losh X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) Cc: toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ARM issue with old binutils X-BeenThere: freebsd-toolchain@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Maintenance of FreeBSD's integrated toolchain List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:30:40 -0000 On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Warner Losh wrote: > I'd be inclined to include a small patch to FreeBSD's binutils to = implement this. You might be able to snag it from a newer version of = binutils if you can track down the author of that code and ask if you = can include it in a GPLv2 version of binutils. I just realized that apple is developing own assembler which is actually = based on very old binutils 1.38 from 1988. It is licensed under GPLv2. I can see some arm related stuff there which = I miss in our assembler. http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/cctools/ Can we use parts from Apple AS and merge it with our binutils? Damjan