RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?

[H. Peter Anvin]

binutils 2.16 (and presumably its prereleases, binutils 2.15.9x) appears
to have more bugs than any other version of binutils released in modern
history, *before or after*.

We chronically run into problems because that particular binutils
version breaks code that works fine elsewhere.

I would like to know who would suffer from formally discontinuing
support for that version.  I understand some version of SLES shipped it,
but I don't know for sure.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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