Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:15:15 +0100 From: Pegasus Mc cleaft <ken@mthelicon.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: RFC Newer binutils Message-ID: <200808101215.15679.ken@mthelicon.com>
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Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knows if there is planned an update to the binutils for the base system planned? The reason why I'm asking is (occasionally) I use a later gcc then what comes with the system to take advantage of the newer opcodes in the Core 2. Unfortunately the base assembler dosent understand these new opcodes and things bomb out. I have installed the latest (2.18) version of buntuils and I can compile at that point. Things just get sorta ickey having two versions of binutils on the machine and thought it would be much simpler to have an update to the base. I know there are still problems with the later gcc versions (like 4.3) and can understand why FBSD hasent moved to it yet, but didnt think there was any harm in updating to the later versions of as, etc.. Ta Peg
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