On 2009-04-09 at 06:34:17 [+0200], Rob Judd <judd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Last night I successfully built and installed binutils-2.19 against my
gcc-2.95.3-haiku-081024 native compiler with almost no intervention at
all. It seems to work fine, so maybe we can delete the whole of
binutils-2.17 in buildtools/legacy/binutils completely.
Building the stuff is one thing. Whether it actually works is another. I'm
quite sceptical regarding using newer binutils with our gcc 2.95.3. The
combo is totally unsupported officially and we risk introducing more and
more compatibility problems. E.g. with binutils 2.17 we run into #1768.
Unless you have tested binutils 2.19 extensively -- particularly with
respect to RTTI and exceptions (over shared object boundaries) -- I
wouldn't really recommend to upgrade to those.
