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FPC 2.6.2 released (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 03.03.2013, 02:36

> > Not sure about that bugtracker re: COFF reloc limits. That's been fixed
> in
> > DJGPP ports of BinUtils 2.23.1 (thanks to Juan G.), is someone (Sergei
> G.?)
> > planning internal linker for GO32V2?
>
> Afaik he was working on an ELF linker, but I haven't seen commits in the
> last month on this subject.

Here's what I meant (23752):

"(2013-01-26) The issue was caused by more than 65535 relocations per object section. Fixed for PECOFF targets (e.g. Windows). Not fixable for DJCOFF targets (e.g. go32v2) due to object file format limitation, for these targets compiler now prints a correct error message."

> > P.S. 2.7.1 acts like it was "Released 2011-08-03", but that's never been
> an
> > official release, has it? All I see are snapshots, e.g. last one
> (GO32V2,
> > at least) is on FPC FTP dated from January 17, 2013. There are 20x more
> > fixes for 2.7.1 than 2.6.[12]. Yes, I know you have different branches
> and
> > release schedules. Just saying, it still seems (barely) funny.
>
> 2.7.1 is the version in trunk. It is a moving version, probably what you
> got is some snapshot, nothing more.
I know all that, but I really was wondering why there is any bother with 2.6.2 at all when the 2.7.1 line has so many more fixes (that weren't backported). Plus the use of "released" sounded weird. But I guess it's just the way you guys do things. Presumably once it stabilizes, it will become 2.8.0 or whatever.

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