Java broken after i386 PIC change

[Jeff Sturm]

Richard Henderson wrote:
> A change to i386.c?  Duh, no.

Er... I mean was there a similar change to alpha.  Evidently not.  So binutils
2.10 had different and unrelated bugs concerning x86 and alpha, and I stumbled
across both by coincidence.

> > Shared objects built with current gcc and binutils 2.10 definitely do not
> > work on alphaev56-unknown-linux-gnu.
> 
> Yes.  There was a bug related to generating dynamic
> relocations to dwarf2 debug information.  You want to
> use current cvs anyway, since it makes the line number
> information much smaller.

Good to know, thanks.  I did search the binutils list for something relevant,
but did not look hard enough.  (Hopefully there'll be a binutils release to
correspond to the gcc release, otherwise 3.0 will be ignored by most Alpha
users.)

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Jeff Sturm
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