middle-end/7617: shared libgcc binary incompatibility on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

The following reply was made to PR middle-end/7617; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: morey@astech.org
Cc: nbryant@allegientsystems.com, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org,
	gcc-prs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, nobody@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: middle-end/7617: shared libgcc binary incompatibility on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:02:57 -0400

 On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:10:43PM +0700, morey@astech.org wrote:
 > I have been experiencing the same problems.  I have been using binutils-2.13.  After extensive playing around I have noticed
 > 
 > a few things.  If you compile a simple program that is dynamically linked with libgcc_s.so it will crash in __init with a
 > 
 > SIGSEV.  However, if it is compiled with -static the program will run fine.  I then rebuilt gcc and had it use the solaris ld
 > 
 > and as and how a program the dynamically linked with libgcc_s.so will run fine.  It appears to be a problem related to binutils-2.13.
 > 
 > I will try an older version and see if I can track down what exactly is causing the problem.
 > 
 > http://gcc.gnu.org/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gcc&pr=7617
 
 Get a binutils CVS head snapshot.  This is recently fixed and we'll be
 releasing a fixed 2.13.1 in a couple of weeks hopefully.
 
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 Daniel Jacobowitz
 MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer