binutils-2.16.1

Greetings,

AFAIK, there are currently two patches to binutils floating around that
add support for Gekko's paired-singles[1] and quantization registers[2].
Patch [2] appears to be more cummulative.

As a means of consolidating this effort, I'll be importing binutils-2.16.1
into CVS RSN. This won't be a drop-in tree like the rest of the stuff in
CVS, but rather the full source. Reason being, this is mainly targeted at
_development_.

GNU diff-style patches will be made available on the File Release System
for those who don't want to pull a hefty ~95MB just to build a toolchain ;)
These will also be bundled with an updated version of the uClibc
toolchain (buildroot) which should be available soon.

.dol support in the BFD library (and hence ld, objcopy and objdump)
would be a nice addition. That way everything becomes self-contained.
I'll look into this as time permits.

Comments?


PS. Andrew, if there's anything else you would like to commit since your
initial announcement[1], contact me off-list and I'll be happy to add
you as a project developer.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4576350&forum_id=38826
[2] http://voidpointer.org/gc-linux/gekko.patch


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