Which version of binutils matches the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8?

Which version of binutils matches the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8?

[xingxing pan]

Are the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8  from the binutils or developed
separately from binutils?

Re: Which version of binutils matches the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8?

[Doug Evans]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, xingxing pan <forandom@gmail.com> wrote:
> Are the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8  from the binutils or developed
> separately from binutils?

Depends on what you mean by "separate". :-)

They do come from the same source tree, and so are not separate in
that sense, *but* they are released at different times, and so one
can't, technically, match bfd/opcodes from a binutils release with the
ones in a gdb release.

Re: Which version of binutils matches the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8?

[xingxing pan]

You mean there are two groups of people maintain the bfd/opcode
respectively? Why not use one bfd/opcode? What's the difference?

2009/9/15 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, xingxing pan <forandom@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Are the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8  from the binutils or developed
>> separately from binutils?
>
> Depends on what you mean by "separate". :-)
>
> They do come from the same source tree, and so are not separate in
> that sense, *but* they are released at different times, and so one
> can't, technically, match bfd/opcodes from a binutils release with the
> ones in a gdb release.
>

Re: Which version of binutils matches the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8?

[Doug Evans]

[repeating for the list's sake]

Like I said, they come from the same source tree so there is only one
bfd/opcode from a source tree point of view.
And collectively we (gdb people + binutils people) maintain that source tree
(though there are many who work on both).
But since gdb and binutils are on different release schedules, you
can't necessarily match the copies of bfd/opcodes in each.  If
binutils/gdb are released at similar times, the differences will be
small but not necessarily identical.

For completeness' sake,
Procedurally, bfd/opcodes patches go to the binutils mailing list,
they "own" bfd/opcodes.

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:38 AM, xingxing pan <forandom@gmail.com> wrote:
> You mean there are two groups of people maintain the bfd/opcode
> respectively? Why not use one bfd/opcode? What's the difference?
>
> 2009/9/15 Doug Evans <dje@google.com>:
>> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:19 AM, xingxing pan <forandom@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Are the BFD and Opcode in GDB6.8  from the binutils or developed
>>> separately from binutils?
>>
>> Depends on what you mean by "separate". :-)
>>
>> They do come from the same source tree, and so are not separate in
>> that sense, *but* they are released at different times, and so one
>> can't, technically, match bfd/opcodes from a binutils release with the
>> ones in a gdb release.
>>
>