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Re: solaris27 + libstdc++-v3 + -static == core in ctype_char_members.c


On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:12:54PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>    Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 10:00:47 -0800
>    From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> 
>    On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:41:40PM -0500, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>    >    Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:32:02 -0800
>    >    From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
>    > 
>    >    On Wed, Mar 01, 2000 at 02:55:48PM -0800, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
>    >    > 
>    >    > I'm using the 2.9.1 binutils release with the gcc-2.95.2 sources. I've
>    >    > updated libtool to be 1.3.4 but that doesn't seem to make a
>    > 
>    >    I won't use binutils 2.9.1 for anything. It is so buggy, especially
>    >    on Sparc/ELF.
>    > 
>    > H.J. seems to like to make extreme statements like this.  Please try
>    > to ignore them.  He does a disservice to the free software community
>    > by spreading FUD without referring to actual facts.
> 
>    This is from the Solaris/Sparc bug report on Aug. 3, 1999:
> 
>    ---
>    I've sent this already to gcc-bugs and bug-gnu-utils. It is
>    currently not possible to compile gcc-2.9.5 with the official 
>    binutils 2.9.1. The switch jump tables in their own subsections seem
>    to generate bad relocation entries with the 2.9.1 sun assembler
>    ----
> 
>    I stand correct that binutils 2.9.1 is broken on Solaris/Sparc.
> 
> Thank you for referring to the actual problem, rather than just saying
> that the code is ``so buggy.''  Is this problem fixed in the

I thought it was a common knowledge among gcc/binutils sparc users.

> development sources?

I believe so. I spent some time on the one related to it. If it still
doesn't work, I'd like to fix it.

> 
> Does this have anything to do with the problem that Benjamin is
> seeing?

I have no idea. I won't spend my time on any bug Sparc/ELF reports
which use binutils 2.9.1.


H.J.

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