970917 eh problems - bootstrap failure

[Robert Lipe]

Robert Lipe wrote:

> The assembler trips over itself when doing a bootstrap.  In COFF
> mode (which is what the native tools do by default) a section name
> can no be over 7 characters.  (See kludge in sco5.h.  Search for 
> "gcc_except_table".)

Actually, this limit seems to be present only in the COFF mode.   Once
Kean's patches are applied, the default is ELF, which serves to prolong
the lose until the multilib/crt stuff is whacked with '-mcoff'.

Is this really a COFF thing, or is it lameness in the SCO assembler?
Unixware wouldn't have this limitation becuase it's never had the ability
to generate COFF binaries.  Don't know about other x86 COFF targets - ISC?
Coherent?

Oh.   And before anyone thinks I'm a meanie for talking about the 
kludge above, it's my kludge...

RJL