Re: The 2.47 release branch has been created

On Sun, Jul 12, 2026 at 5:50 PM Nick Clifton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
>   The 2.47 branch has now been created:
>
>      git clone git://sourceware.org/git/binutils-gdb.git -b binutils-2_47-branch
>
>   A snapshot of the sources is also available here:
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>     https://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/snapshots/binutils-2.46.90.tar.xz
>
>   Please could all patches for the branch be run by me.
>   The rules for the branch are:
>
>     * No new features.
>     * Target specific bug fixes are OK.
>     * Generic bug fixes are OK if they are important and widely tested.
>     * Documentation updates/fixes are OK.
>     * Translation updates are OK.
>     * Fixes for testsuite failures are OK.
>
>   Ideally I would like to make the release happen in two weeks time,
>   i.e. July 26.  Which I hope will be enough time for everyone
>   to get their final fixes in.
>
>   Note - this release does not contain the sources for GOLD.
>
> Cheers
>   Nick

I saw a linker failure when building a GCC 17 libstdc++ test,
using 20260711 binutils:

/usr/local/bin/ld: .eh_frame_hdr refers to overlapping FDEs
/usr/local/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
compiler exited with status 1
FAIL: 23_containers/set/allocator/ext_ptr.cc  -std=gnu++20 (test for
excess errors)

I don't know if it is a regression.

-- 
H.J.