ARM issue with old binutils

Damjan Marion damjan.marion at gmail.com
Sat Jun 25 15:25:38 UTC 2011


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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