Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/2002/05/17/05:58:12
On 17 May 2002 at 12:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 10:51:41 +0300 (WET)
> > From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
> >
> > gcc-3.1 should works with binutils-2.11.2 or 2.12, but with these versions
> > one will get weird additional error messages on unresolved references
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-05/msg01385.html
>
> Does this happen only with DWARF2 debug info (i.e. under -ggdb), or
> even with -g and -gstabs+, or without debug info at all? If the
> latter, I think it's very bad.
with -gdwarf-2 only
>
> > binutils-2.12.1 is recommended
>
> If GCC 3.1 can only work without these warnings when used with
> Binutils 2.12.1 and later, I think we should try to convince GCC
> developers to fix that somehow before GCC 3.1 is released: Binutils
> 2.12.1 is not even on ftp.gnu.org yet, and 2.12 was only released 2
> months ago. How can they reasonably require such a fresh version??
>
> Or is it too late to ask them to change their minds?
Unlikely. Anyway it's not a fatal problem, as it happens only then when
one uses DWARF-2 debugging info and already have unresolved
references from linker (so nothing is additionally broken, not counting
already broken user program ... )
Only we should be prepared for storm of questions about these messages.
Andris
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