ARM issue with old binutils

[Roman Divacky]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 09:16:03AM -0600, 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.

actually, there's 5. Use llvm integrated assembler (once it's mature enough),
we wont get newer linker this way but thats less pressing issue imho.

roman