building gcc3 on x86/solaris: "Illegal subtraction"

[Chris Majewski]

Does it have to be binutils-2.11.2? How about 2.11? OK, how about 2.11
and you can keep the car?  OK, 2.11, you keep the Ford, and we split the 40
thousand. How's that? 

-chris

On 3 Jul 2001, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Jul  3, 2001, Chris Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Building gcc3 with 2.95.2 on an x86/solaris box:
> > Assembler: unwind-dw2.c
> >         aline 4252      : Illegal subtraction
> >         aline 4275      : Illegal subtraction
> > 	[ ... ]
> 
> Yep, known problem, already fixed for 3.0.1.  You'll have to tell GCC
> 3.0 to use GNU as from binutils 2.11.2.
> 
> The patch that fixed the problem was:
> 
> 2001-07-03  Rainer Orth  <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
> 
> 	* config/i386/sol2.h (ASM_PREFERRED_EH_DATA_FORMAT): Define.
> 	Fixes PRs bootstrap/3067, bootstrap/3249, bootstrap/3275.
> 
> -- 
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