Date: Tue, 2 Jun 92 15:54:25 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: engdahl AT brutus DOT aa DOT ab DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: developing a cross-compiler
Status: O

The 1.94 binutils have the nice feature that they are ideal for cross
compilers, however they still have many bugs.  The old binutils is
relatively bug-free, but is also mostly feature-free as well.

Cygnus Support is currently still working on ironing out the bugs in
the new binutils, which will use a library they call BFD (binary file
descriptor), which gas binutils and ld will all use.  I don't
currently know what the status of that endeavor is - I've seen some
success in some cases, but not reliably.  Contact Cygnus for more
information (see the GNU SERVICE file on prep.ai.mit.edu for info on
contacting contractors).

DJ
dj AT ctron DOT com
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