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Re: Solaris 8/SPARC bootstrap broken building 64-bit libgcc


> 3.3.0 had no testsuite regressions over 3.2.3, except for a few ones in
> libjava. Yet it miscompiles GNU tar, GNU emacs and ICE on KDE 3.1.2, which
> were correctly compiled by 3.2.3 AFAIK.

Correction: it doesn't technically miscompile GNU Emacs 21.3 (the primary 
executable is clean) but Emacs uses a PCH-like mechanism that makes 
assumptions about the contents of the .data and .bss sections, which are not 
valid anymore for GCC 3.3.x.

-- 
Eric Botcazou


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