binutils-2.15 - work around for gcc optimization problem on sparc -sun-solaris2.7

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Eric,
>>Hi Eric,
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> Hi Nick,
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>>Maybe...  It involves arithmetic comparisons of pointers to separately
>>allocated objects, which is a bit dubious in the first place.
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> Note that it doesn't compare pointers directly, but first performs a 
> substraction on pointers which is strictly specified by C99 6.5.6 §9: "When 
> two pointers are substracted, both shall point to elements of the same array 
> object, or one past the last element of the array object; the result is the 
> difference of the subscripts of the two array elements."
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> So my understanding is that there isn't any GCC bug here.
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>>Doh!  Yes - I missed this.  Very sorry.  I will revert Kelvin's patch.
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> Thanks!
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