Re: Q: Estimated date for 2.16 release ?

["Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp dot com>" <joel dot sherrill at OARcorp dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 09:36:11AM -0500, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com> wrote:
> >
> > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-03/msg00489.html
> > >
> > > Eric Norum (cc'ed) recently narrowed it down to this construct:
> > >
> > > =============================================================
> > > A little poking around reveals that it's the lines like:
> > >
> > > _RamBase = DEFINED(_RamBase) ? _RamBase : 0x0;
> > > _RamSize = DEFINED(_RamSize) ? _RamSize : 0x7f0000;
> > > _HeapSize = DEFINED(_HeapSize) ? _HeapSize : 0;   /* 0x20000;*/
> > > _StackSize = DEFINED(_StackSize) ? _StackSize : 1M; /* 0x2000;*/
> > >
> > > that are killing ld.
> > > ==============================================================
> > >
> > > Does this sound familiar?
> >
> > Yes. :-(  The semantics of DEFINED has changed.  IIRC, my patch
> > to announce that in ld/NEWS before 2.15 received no comments.
> > The usage above should still work, though.
> >
> > Can you open a PR with binutils-self-contained (only assembly
> > files, no C or objects) test-case?  Maybe all was at the URL
> > above, but I don't see the ld command line.  Still, please open
> > a PR.
>
>
> Was a PR ever created for this?  Has anyone looked at it?

Not that I know of.

Eric.. if you have a .c file and simple linkcmds that produces this,
then just use the -S option to put together a binutils test case.

Thanks.

--joel