[Bug c++/54155] Newly compiled GCC 4.4.4 on Solaris sparc gives problem with -m32/-m64 flags

[dshanke at gmail dot com]

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54155

--- Comment #9 from damz <dshanke at gmail dot com> 2012-08-09 12:02:42 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #8)
> > --- Comment #7 from damz <dshanke at gmail dot com> 2012-08-08 17:40:37 UTC ---
> 
> > How I wish that the supportability matrix was published.
> 
> I hope you understand that this is completely unfeasible: I'm currently
> testing gcc 4.6/4.7/4.8 on Solaris 8/9/10/11, both sparc and x86.
> Adding older gcc releases (which are no longer maintained anyway) and
> more than one (the current) binutils release to that testing simply
> cannot be done in reasonable time, with finite amounts of diskspace, and
> man power to analyse the results.
> 
> > Did I miss to see a document saying that ld 2.21 will not be supported by GCC
> > 4.4.4 and below? :(
> 
> No, but in general (which is not yet true for gcc 4.4) I try to list the
> latest binutils version known to work with that version of gcc.  With
> newer binutils releases, you're on your own.  They may well work, but no
> guarantees.
> 
> > I was hoping that backward compatibility was mostly retained!
> 
> Agreed, but as I said when I found that gcc 4.4 doesn't work with gld
> 2.21, I immediately backported the patch to that release branch.
> 
>     Rainer

Thank you Rainer. I really appreciate your transparent replies.
Cheers!
signing off
damz