Re: [PATCH 1/2] MIPS: Compressed PLT/stubs support

Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-06-26T12:49:29Z

Joel,

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> > Of course it's still possible that a fortnight away you'll still not
> > have rolled 7.6 out for one reason or another, but assuming that all
> > goes well, what is the prospect of having 7.7 released before
> > binutils 2.24?
>
> We have several options if you miss 7.6. We can look at a 7.6.1,
> for instance. And if binutils keeps to its current typical pace
> of 1 major release a year, with the last one being around Oct,
> GDB 7.7 should also be out by then.

Thanks for the details, I'll keep an eye on upcoming releases now that
the change has finally gone in, and I hope we won't need a special GDB
7.6.1 release, although I recall the binutils 2.23 release was a little
bit later last year than originally scheduled (i.e. late Aug/early Sep).

Maciej