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Date:      Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:30:35 +0200
From:      Damjan Marion <damjan.marion@gmail.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        toolchain@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ARM issue with old binutils
Message-ID:  <932AAF33-57B3-4E12-AA9B-4AD457377F1D@gmail.com>
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On Jun 22, 2011, at 5:39 PM, Warner Losh wrote:

> I'd be inclined to include a small patch to FreeBSD's binutils to =
implement this.  You might be able to snag it from a newer version of =
binutils if you can track down the author of that code and ask if you =
can include it in a GPLv2 version of binutils.

I just realized that apple is developing own assembler which is actually =
based on very old binutils 1.38 from 1988.
It is licensed under GPLv2. I can see some arm related stuff there which =
I miss in our assembler.

http://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/cctools/

Can we use parts from Apple AS and merge it with our binutils?

Damjan






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