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- From: bothner@cygnus.com
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- Subject: [gnu.announce] Per announcment
- Followup-To: gnu.utils.bug
- Date: 6 Sep 1992 08:25:18 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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-
- The 2.0 version of the binutils distribution is now available from the
- "usual" places (such as anonymous ftp from pub/gnu/binutils-2.0.tar.Z
- on prep.ai.mit.edu).
-
- This is completely re-written from the original GNU binutils
- distribution, and is based on a Binary File Descriptor (BFD) library
- that provides support for multiple object file formats as well as
- cross-development. (BFD is also used by gdb and some versions of gas.)
- Included in this distribution are the GNU linker, the binary utilities
- (ar, ranlib, nm, objdump, size, copy, strip), and a new version of gprof.
-
- The released code was written (mostly) by Cygnus, and has been
- shipped to Cygnus customers. However, it has not been extensively
- tested on many machines. So treat this as any release with a
- version number ending with 0 - with healthy skepticism! Also,
- think of this as a hacker release: If you can't get it to work,
- we probably won't have time to help you, especially since I'm
- going on vacation right now and won't be available for 3 weeks!
- Secondary contact addresses can be found in binutils-2.0/binutils/README.
- There are also various features missing in this release, including
- ports, shared libraries, missing options; volunteers willing to
- tackle these projects would be most welcome. (See the files
- binutils/TODO, bfd/TODO, and ld/TODO.)
-
- --Per Bothner
- Cygnus Support bothner@cygnus.com
-
-