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FPC 2.6.2 released (Announce)

posted by marcov, 04.03.2013, 22:23

> > > 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."
As said, I've no info on if he really working on it. Could be that he keeps an eye out for a future plan.

> 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).

The question is how many more problems have been introduced :-) Moreover currently 2.7.x contains unfinished business in the unicode domain.

> 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.
Yup. And it is not weird. Nearly all products work that way. A branch for open development (2.7.x), and a stable branch (2.6.x in our case)

The point was more that in the trunk/unstable case, don't read too much into building dates. There are commits nearly every day.

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