GCC 2.95.x: Major problems on Solaris (was: Lost specific.html FAQEntry)

[Gerald Pfeifer]

On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, H.J. Lu wrote:
> There are known bugs in binutils 2.9.1 on Solaris/Sparc. Quite a few
> Solaris/Sparc bugs have been fixed in binutils in cvs.

Thanks, HJ! I haved installed the patch below; it would be great if
someone would drop us a note once binutils have fixed these bugs in
an "official" release.

Gerald

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> <p>binutils 2.9.1 has known bugs on this platform. We recommend to use the
> vendor tools (Sun as, Sun ld) until these have been fixed.</p>
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