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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 09/18] arm64: explicitly pass
 --no-fix-cortex-a53-843419 to GNU gold
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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 02:47:20PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> However, we could instead check ld-version, produce a warning, and
> abort the build in such cases.

I believe the version number of gold didn't change in binutils 2.28.1,
where this was fixed, but we could certainly warn about older versions
of gold.

Sami

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On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 02:47:20PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> However, we could instead check ld-version, produce a warning, and
> abort the build in such cases.

I believe the version number of gold didn't change in binutils 2.28.1,
where this was fixed, but we could certainly warn about older versions
of gold.

Sami