binutils 2.10.1 on solaris with 2.95.2.

[Putney, Jeff]

Is there any consensus on the use of binutils 2.10.1 with gcc-2.95.2 on
solaris 2.6 - 8?  We are trying to move from egcs-1.1.2 to 2.95.2 and get
the most reliable configuration for both C and C++.  

What I've observed during this effort:

1) Using as from binutils 2.9.1 generates binaries which dump core on switch
statements containing more than ~4 case statements.

2) Using sun's as (on 2.6) either has problems with name mangling
(especially with maps) or linker errors when --squangle is given (on
string_char_traits).

3) All this seems to work with binutils 2.10.1, but I have not seen
reference to it in digging through dejanews, or in my backlog from the
mailing list.

So, are there known porblems with 2.10.1?  Or, more importantly, given that
2.9.1 is not recommended for use with 2.95.2 preferring the native tools,
which would be preferred between the native tools and 2.10.1?

--jeff