Hi Ross, On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 11:55 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > I don't like accumulating pending patches for something as key as > binutils, are these actually working their way upstream now? Sure they are! Our team development is very upstream targeted, i.e. we try to submit all our changes upstream. But with Binutils we're lagging behind upstream a bit because recently we made some significant reworks and now catching up with upstream. What's more my colleague Claudiu Zissulescu recently became official Binutils maintainer for ARC, see https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=02d7a79e1b93240729a52246432d9a84583bcf82 so I expect less and less patches for ARC will be "pending". Not sure though if that makes much sense. -Alexey