Re: Release 2.24

Maciej W. Rozycki
2013-12-02T16:21:04Z

On Mon, 25 Nov 2013, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> > I'm not sure who has the authority to approve this change for GDB 7.6
> > though.
>
> I suggest a quick look from the binutils maintainer who approved
> the patches on HEAD.

Richard, can you help?

> For testing, I know you showed the spectacular improvements with
> binutils 2.24. Have you tested that it doesn't change anything
> when using 2.23, by any chance? Just in the interest of being extra
> safe, I think that would be useful testing.

It took me a little while to set it up, but I have now did this testing.
I ran o32 testing only, for standard MIPS, MIPS16 and microMIPS code (GCC
multilibs). I had to tweak compiler options used in testing so as to
avoid producing code incompatible with standard MIPS PLT entries,
`-fno-optimize-sibling-calls' and `-mno-jals -fno-optimize-sibling-calls'
respectively for MIPS16 and microMIPS code. Standard MIPS code required
no extra options. There were no regressions in this setup with binutils
2.23 (the tip of binutils-2_23-branch).

Maciej