[fpc-devel] Error compiling trunk on FreeBSD

[Tomas Hajny]

On Wed, March 2, 2011 11:13, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> In our previous episode, Jonas Maebe said:
>> > Binutils 2.15 is the lastest binutils under GPLv2.
>>
>> Binutils 2.17 was the last GPLv2 version of binutils, and it supports
>> cmpxchg16b.
>
> Ok. Then I don't know why they are stuck at 2.15, I got that answer then
> (at
> the Fosdem LLVM talk), but didn't check it further.  I'll ask around.
>
> But anyway, 8.2 is days old, so migrating to 2.17 is for now not an
> option,
> and the "db" solution will have to be implemented anyway.

FWIW, I had to do something similar in i386/mmx.pp (femms instruction) in
the past due to AS version available for OS/2 at that time.

Tomas