Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: vmlinux.lds: Drop Binutils 2.18 workarounds

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 18:34:21 -0500

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 11:02:53AM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
> Segher added some workarounds for GCC 4.2 and bintuils 2.18. We now set
> 4.6 and 2.20 as the minimum, so they can be dropped.

It was a bug in binutils _before_ 2.18, only seen by people using GCC
_before_ 4.2.

It's all ancient history by now, and good riddance :-)

> Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley <[email-masked]>

Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>

Segher