-fsquangle

[Dimitri PAPADOPOULOS-ORFANOS]

The problems I reported have nothing to do with `-fsquangle'.
Rather, egcs produces *.s files that Sun's assembler and/or
linker do not manage properly. So it's probably yet another
bug from Sun.

`-fsquangle' works just great. Just one example: we lowered
the size of one of our debugging libraries from more than
50 Mb to 17 Mb.
However, I do not understand how `squangle' works. Is there
a runtime penalty associated with it? If not, why not change
to `squangle' mode by default? If binary compatibility is an
issue, make it an option in the configure script and advertise
it in the INSTALL docs.