Re: vax binutils 2.39 gas problems

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro%orcam.me.uk@localhost>]

Christos --

On Fri, 27 Jan 2023, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> > On Jan 27, 2023, at 7:44 PM, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> > 
> > christos@ wrote:
> > 
> >> I think I found the problem....
> > 
> > Thanks, with the following your commit
> > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2023/01/27/msg143037.html
> > now vax bootloader builds.

 Do you have plans to submit your fix upstream?  Preferably with a GAS 
test case (I can help you with that) reduced from the original problematic 
assembly source.  The VAX port has so little target-specific coverage in 
the testsuite and without that it's hard to track quality; we don't know 
what the reference is even.

 Please note that it's not necessary anymore to assign the copyright of 
the FSF to contribute to upstream binutils (cf. binutils/MAINTAINERS):

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The alternative is to sign off the contribution by agreeing to the
Developer's Certificate of Origin (version 1.1 or later) and adding a
line to the end of the contribution that looks something like this:

  Signed-off-by: Random J Developer <random%developer.example.org@localhost>

The details of the Developer's Certificate or Origin can be found here:

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With the requirement for copyright assignment lifted I do encourage you to 
contribute any local changes you may have so as to save everyone duplicate 
effort.

  Maciej