I'm currently using a recent Cygnus binutils snapshot (000413), since the
   last released version (2.9.1) doesn't support ARM ELF.  I'm inclined to
   suspect that backporting the ARM ELF stuff from a current binutils into
   2.9.1 will be interesting.
   
   I haven't actually attempted either of those backports yet -- getting my
   new home machine into a state where it can commit things is more
   important.


as far as binutils goes, upgrading this is far simpler than upgrading
the compiler.  there are lots of new features in the newer binutils we
could use...  but this also needs to wait until after 1.5.