other/8113: gcc 3.* on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 incompatible with Rationale's purify

[rrh@cray.com]

>Number:         8113
>Category:       other
>Synopsis:       gcc 3.* on sparc-sun-solaris2.8 incompatible with Rationale's purify
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 01 15:16:01 PDT 2002
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>Originator:     rrh@cray.com
>Release:        gcc 3.* sparc-sun-solaris2.8
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>Description:
The executables produced for sparc-sun-solaris2.8 by g++ 3.0
g++ 3.1 and g++ 3.2 do not work with Rationale's latest
release of their purify product.  Purify only works on releases
< g++ 3.0.  As of this writing, 
Rational is beta-testing purify support for g++ 3.0
and g++ 3.1, 
but has no plans (yet) for supporting g++ 3.2.

Rationale has not been able to keep up with
the changes to the ABI and debug information.
That's too bad, since (leaving aside the issue of software
patents) purify is a pretty good tool for finding memory
problems.
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