[Bug target/47230] [4.6/4.7 Regression] gcc fails to bootstrap on alpha in stage2 with "relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 against ..."

[ubizjak at gmail dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47230

--- Comment #9 from Uros Bizjak <ubizjak at gmail dot com> 2011-04-29 17:52:24 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #8)

> > > I do have quite an old binutils (2.18.50.0.9-8.fc10 20080822).  I tried
> > > binutils-2.21 once, but it regressed some gcc tls test so I ditched it. 
> > > Haven't tried any other binutils versions yet.
> > 
> > I have reported this problem to binutils and it was fixed by rth in post-2.21
> > SVN.
> 
> Do you have a reference, like a PR number or an approximate commit date?  I'd
> like to backport this fix to my binutils 2.21 based branch.

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11891

Maybe you should also backport an unrelated alpha fix:

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12610