On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 7:59 AM Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-help < gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2021 at 14:32, German Salazar wrote: > > > I am about to install gcc 10.3.0 > > *Question: which version of binutils should I use?* > > I can't seem to find a hint about that, anywhere. > > It doesn't matter, anything made in the last ten years will work fine. > Generally, the newer the better, because GCC can take advantage of the > newer features. But it will still work without them. > For a stable well supported target like x86 this may be true, but for a lot of embedded targets this won't work. My advice would be to use the binutils version that was released right before the gcc version was released. Gcc-10.1 was released May 7, 2020. So you should try using the binutils-2.34 release which was released Feb 1, 2020. Jim
