the struggle for a 64-bit GCC on Solaris 10 - part 2

[Jonathan Wakely]

On 12 November 2012 21:20, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>> I'm still really unclear on why you're having so much trouble with
>> this.
>> Have you tried bootstrapping with SunCC like I did? Granted, I'm only
>> on
>> 5.9, but if newer versions fall down that's Oracle's fault, not gcc's.
>
> Since this is a purely gcc 4.7.2 bootstrapped with gcc 4.5.1 as the compiler then it would be
> entirely in GCC land and not Oracle.

Except that the system headers which declare the problem function come
from Oracle.  And that doesn't answer the question.