egcs/Solaris status

[Igor Markov]

  Dimitri,

   several things:
   our sysadmin was able to build 2.95.1 on Solaris 2.7 with CC5.0
   We can compile and link our code, but it seg faults on trivial
   code (I posted a ridiculous 4-liner to gcc-bugs), so we are 
   probably going to roll back to 2.95.

   Earlier, we installed binutils -- when we saw that gcc does not
   work well with Sun's ld, we decided not to try to fix that.
   I don't think you can expect to ever link C++ libs compiled with
   CC and with g++ because they seem to have vastly different ways 
   to process templates (each offer 3-4 options, but non-default 
   options either aren't working on our code, e.g., -frepo or lead
   to unacceptable code bloat, e.g., w SunCC).

   So, my question is -- what (how many) patches did you install for CC
   (you mentioned fully patched) ? 

   2.95 seemed to work fine on Solaris 2.6 (we upgraded recently to 2.7
   and did not try 2.95 here).

								Igor
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