GCC 3.x and GNU utilities 3.x (Was: [fpc-devel]Small technical answers)

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>>>>>>>>distributed with
>>>>>>>>version 3.x of GNU utilities?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>[...]I was
>>>>thinking about one of
>>>>the latest versions.
>>>>
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>>>.
>>>.
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>>>Sorry, I don't really understand your question. Do you have any
>>>particular version in mind? Or do you have a particular problem
>>>which might be solved with one of the later versions?
>>>Understanding your problem would probably help us to answer you
>>>more precisely, or even solve the problem.
>>>
>>>
>>No, I don't have any problem with version, with is currently distributed
>>with FPC. But IMHO the latest version is usually better (fixed bugs, new
>>features, etc.). Really, I was thinking about version 2.14 (not 2.1.4!)
>>- as I know, It's the latest version of GNU utlis. But I think, that I
>>got answer for this question:
>>
>>"[..]FPC has slightly different needs than GCC, so the older version
>>might be perfectly useable for FPC although it might be outdated for GCC."
>>
>>I understand, that currently distributed version has everything, what
>>FPC needs, and newer version won't change anything. Am I right?
>>
>
>Yes, another issue is that building GNU binutils for go32v2 (djgpp) and
>win32 (mingw32) is most of the time not working out-of-the-box. So unless
>we really need to migrate to newer versions we don't spend any time on
>building them.
>
Ok, I think that it's a good time to end this discussion, so thanks for 
all answers.

Regards

Maciej