Solaris 7 assembler patch breaks egcs

[Brian Ford]

On Thu, 13 May 1999, Martin v. Loewis wrote:

> Can you please elaborate? I get always confused when trying to
> understand what the state of egcs on Solaris 7 is. Is it true that you
> could chose between 32bit and 64bit targets on Solaris7? If so, which
> did you chose?
> 
I believe it is true, but I do not know which he chose.
See http://egcs.cygnus.com/ml/egcs/1999-04/msg00336.html for information
about the distinction.

> I always use GNU binutils together with egcs on Solaris 2.5 and
> Solaris 2.6. Would that approach break on Solaris 7?
> 
Bad idea.  At least on 2.6, I both ld 2.9.1 and 2.8.1 have problems
creating and sometimes linking shared libraries.

> Dave Miller repeatedly stated that he doesn't consider egcs ready for
> 64 bit stuff, mainly because of floating point problems. I just can't
> understand why you can't even use it for 32 bit stuff...
> 
I am pretty sure that the using it for 32 bit stuff if it is configured
correctly, is ok.

> Curious,
> Martin
> 

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