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Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:28:20 +1000 (EST)
From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Danny=20Smith?= <danny_r_smith_2001 AT yahoo DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: fastcall
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 --- Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at
08:29:29AM +1000, Danny Smith wrote:
> >maintainer.  There are currently  bugs in binutils with respect to ld
> >--shared (or at least there was two weeks ago and has been since 17
> [UTC]
> >December).  
> 
> URL?  I don't see anything obvious in the subject.
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-01/msg00477.html
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-02/msg00624.html

> 
> >Related frustrations:  ReactOs team has submitted several relatively
> >non-intrusive patches for useful windres improvements that have not been
> >seriously reviewed.  My patch for --exclude-all-libs lingered into
> >forgetfullness.  Ditto for a ReactOs patch for checksums in
> pe-executables.
> 
> Does the ReactOS team have assignments on file with the FSF?

I believe Eric Kohl does.  I don't know about Caspar (windres patch
submitter)

> 
> >Chris asked the question a while ago: "Wanna be a binutils maintainer".
> 
> Yeah.  I asked for binutils maintainer and binutils and gcc cygwin
> package maintainers.  gcc 3.1 presents a challenge in that some of my
> local hacks will no longer work.  I have an idea about how to kludge
> around that fact without impacting the rest of gcc but I don't really
> have much time for much programming anymore.
> 
> However, I'll ask nickc if he minds if I start trying to clear out some
> of the binutils issues.
> 
> Danny, do you mind checking things in, if I get approval? 

Does write access to winsup also give me write[-after-approval] access to
binutils?  If so, I am happy checking in windres patches.   The checksum
patch is a bit more intrusive into BFD-land and needs review. 

 Or, we can
> split the task.  The windres changes should be noncontroversial.  The
> only problem is the assignment one, AFAICT.
> 
> cgf 

Danny

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