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

[Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>]

   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
development sources?

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

Ian