Details on binutils/gas/ld

["Vijay" <vijay@saionline.com>]

I am having major problems with

gcc2.8.1 on solaris 2.6 choking on symbols produced by code like

 

...

..

map<string, map<string,string> > xmap;

 

xmap.insert(make_pair(some_pair));

 

etc.

 

Basically, i get errors like:

usr/ccs/bin/as: "/var/tmp/cc1Ivwu_.s", line 7435: error: can't compute value of an expression involving an external symbol

 

What may i do? The darned thing compiles fine under VC++ 6.0!!

 

I AM TOLD that gas and the gnu loader will solve this problem. gcc 2.95 is not yet available for solaris 2.6.

So i am looking for detailed instructions on how to

 

1.  install gas and the loader for sparc2.6

2.  use gas and the gnu loader once it is installed, ie switches etc to use in gcc 2.8.1 for this purpose?

3. any environment variables i need to set or whatever.

 

thanks very much

 

vijay