gcc-2.95.2 and Solaris 2.8

[Martin v. Loewis]

> If Solaris is installed in 32bit mode, is there any degree of
> confidence that a plain vanilla native installation of gcc-2.95.2
> has a chance of working?

It will work for C code. It will have a number of problems with C++
code, resulting for 

a) a limitation in /usr/ccs/bin/as might result in Solaris rejecting
   valid assembler code generated by g++.

b) a feature of GNU ld (linkonce) is not supported by /usr/ccs/bin/ld,
   which will result in larger-than-necessary executables.

Regards,
Martin