SCO experiences

[J. Kean Johnston]

On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Robert Lipe wrote:

> Stripping .o's before handing them to the linker can't be a good plan.
> It's not actually gcc that drops core.   It's ld/collect2.   Stick a 
> debugger in it and see if you can give better hints.
I believe this is incorrect. The SCO linker dumps core and collect2
simply reports the failure. If you use the GCC 2.8 snapshots (which
dont use collect2 on SCO) the same problem will occur. Even the native
compiler does a nasty like this sometimes. It is the linker at fault
not egcs.

JKJ