Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 10:06:09 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
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Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Binutils 2.10 released
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Robin Johnson wrote:

> > No. Files produced by earlier versions of Binutils will continue to work with the new
> > version.
> I mean for better performance... 
> 

We must be carefull here. 

For example if one will configure gcc itself using binutils-2.10
newly built gcc binaries will generate assembler file incompatible
with binutils-2.9.1 and earlier.

I don't know about other packages with similar problems though

Andris