Re: RFC: x86: kill binutils 2.16.x?

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 10:15:14 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.
> 

I gave up and became a customer of
http://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/index_old.shtml
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