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From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bris.ac.uk>
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Subject: binutils on arm
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binutils is clearly a show stopper on arm.
Is anybody working on it?
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175605
hasn't been touched for 5 months.
Anybody knows if it builds on linux/armv6?
Worth asking for help in https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/?

Anton