install.texi (Specific, [...]): Mention that binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate...

	* doc/install.texi (Specific, sparc-sun-solaris2*): Mention that
	binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's
	native tools.

Co-Authored-By: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
From-SVN: r52526

diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog
index 579cdf6802bc11b1ad6fbe8f3a34cae1f2de321e..cd0ffc7e5c3e289fdc7cf90e0c67c12a1a55d61e 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/ChangeLog
+++ b/gcc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2002-04-19  Dan Nicolaescu  <dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>
+           Gerald Pfeifer  <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
+
+       * doc/install.texi (Specific, sparc-sun-solaris2*): Mention that
+       binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's
+       native tools.
+
 2002-04-19  Mark Mitchell  <mark@codesourcery.com>
 
        PR c++/6352

diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi
index efd2c0e96597014fa86441df123d753121182ef2..423be2069281a5ea79c0f54e8f2c767c5a5833ff 100644 (file)
--- a/gcc/doc/install.texi
+++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi
@@ -3443,6 +3443,11 @@ There are patches for Solaris 2.6 (105633-56 or newer for SPARC,
 @end html
 @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2*}sparc-sun-solaris2*
 
+When GCC is configured to use binutils 2.11.2 or later the binaries
+produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
+this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
+information.
+
 Sun @command{as} 4.x is broken in that it cannot cope with long symbol names.
 A typical error message might look similar to the following: