From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jun 3 23:25:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B86437C906 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:25:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (root@[209.152.133.57]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA58632; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:25:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id XAA68161; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:25:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Matthew Thyer Cc: current@freebsd.org, Matthew Thyer Subject: Re: Oddities with the new binutils Message-ID: <20000603232557.C67024@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <39375E5D.A967720F@dsto.defence.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <39375E5D.A967720F@dsto.defence.gov.au>; from Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au on Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 04:42:29PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: > Three issues: > - floating point math doesn't seem to work properly: > - backward compatibility: > - stability: Are others seeing these issues? > These issues make me think that the new binutils is not yet ready > for -STABLE. It could also be poorly written ASM code in the things you were running. The old Binutils let people write inconsistent and illegal ASM. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message