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

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot 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:

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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
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I stand correct that binutils 2.9.1 is broken on Solaris/Sparc.


H.J.