other/7535: GCC configuration problem: failed to correctly detect hidden attribute support

[Zagorodnev, Grigory]

> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: nathan
> State-Changed-When: Thu Aug  8 03:57:17 2002
> State-Changed-Why:
>     This is a binutils bug. From gcc's configure.in
>      	# GNU LD versions before 2.12.1 have buggy support for 
> STV_HIDDEN.
>     	# This is irritatingly difficult to feature test for.  Look for 
>     	# the date string after the version number.
>     binutils after 2.12.1 are known good

Few lines below, same gcc's configure.in does try to test 'hidden' feature
of binutils older then 2.12.1. As far as I understand, this checking is
failing. Is'n it?