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Re: Which version of binutils matches the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8?

You mean there are two groups of people maintain the bfd/opcode
respectively? Why not use one bfd/opcode? What's the difference?

2009/9/15 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, xingxing pan <forandom@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8  from the binutils or developed
>> separately from binutils?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "separate". :-)
>
> They do come from the same source tree, and so are not separate in
> that sense, *but* they are released at different times, and so one
> can't, technically, match bfd/opcodes from a binutils release with the
> ones in a gdb release.
>
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