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Date:      Sat, 3 Jun 2000 23:25:57 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
To:        Matthew Thyer <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au>
Subject:   Re: Oddities with the new binutils
Message-ID:  <20000603232557.C67024@dragon.nuxi.com>
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 %2B0930
References:  <39375E5D.A967720F@dsto.defence.gov.au>

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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)


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