binutils 2.27 [not working for powerpc64 (and powerpc?)]

[Dimitry Andric]

Has anyone succeeded in bisecting upstream binutils, to see where this problem was introduced?

-Dimitry

On 20 Sep 2016, at 22:56, Mark Millard <markmi at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> 
> The below forward from freebsd-pcc's list confirms that binutils 2.27 not working for powerpc64 (& powerpc?) contexts.
> 
> Note: Krzysztof Parzyszek is one of the two people that have recently been working on updating clang/llvm for fixing some of the issues that block FreeBSD from using clang for powerpc and powerpc64 for buildworld and buildkernel.
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> markmi at dsl-only.net
> 
> On 2016-Sep-20, at 11:19 AM, Krzysztof Parzyszek <kristof at swissmail.org> wrote:
> 
>> I've had similar problems after building gcc-4.8.  After reverting back to binutils 2.25 and rebuilding, it worked fine.
>> 
>> -Krzysztof
>> 
>> On 9/9/2016 11:32 AM, Bill Sorenson wrote:
>>> Everything I've built with the new binutils using either GCC 4.9, 5.4 or
>>> 6.2 instantly dumps when run. This is on an Xserve G5. Is this just me or
>>> is there something genuinely broken here?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Bill

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