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Date:      Sat, 25 Jun 2011 17:25:25 +0200
From:      Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com>
To:        Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com>
Cc:        toolchain@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARM issue with old binutils
Message-ID:  <AD95F326-1947-4EBA-8888-0022B90B6C1A@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1106250911230.15592@gerinyyl.fvgr>
References:  <0C35FE0F-3301-44C6-AC40-233F6C446EBC@gmail.com> <alpine.LNX.2.00.1106250911230.15592@gerinyyl.fvgr>

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On Jun 25, 2011, at 5:16 PM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011, Damjan Marion wrote:
>> I see 3 options to fix this:
>> 
>> 1. Ask clang folks to patch llvm to use old mnemonics  ("mov r0, r0, rrx" instead of "rrx r0,r0")
>> 2. Maintain same patch for freebsd only
>> 3. patch binutils to support this new mnemonics
> 
>  4. Finally upgrade to a modern version of binutils.
> 
> Yes, I know that is GPLv3.  Been there, done that, and it is not a problem 
> at all, just FUD.  IBM, SAP, Oracle, and all the others are not concerned
> about GPLv3 in the toolchain, nor should we.  Except for FUD.

Too late. Fix is already in SVN (r223484) :)

Damjan

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