f77 on sco5 fails on GOTOFF references

[J. Kean Johnston]

On Sat, Jan 10, 1998 at 07:57:47PM +0000, Joao Cardoso wrote:
> Good news is that I can now build working shared libraries for octave,
> which I was never been able to do under gcc (with Robert's patches). The
This is indeed good news!

> only catch is that some c++ files only compile with -O or -O0. With more
> aggressive optimization the SCO "as" core dumps with SIGSEGV! The assembler
> files are 10000 to 30000 lines long, so I don't post them unless you
> ask for it :).
There is a known problem in the assember which I have escalted here in
the development system group. It was most noticeable if you configured
your egcs with i486-pc-sco* or if you configured it ON a 486 and it picked
that target type up by default. There is a problem in elf with the section
names / certain instructions that causes the assembler to dump core.

A related problem is the linker when you use gcc -s -o foo lots_of_.o.
The linker will dump core too. If you ever encounter this problem,
simply remove the -s from your command line, try again and manually
strip the binary. Both problems are known and being looked at.

Kean.