c++/java relocation errors on sparc-sun-solaris2.7 (Re: Moreinfo on Java coredump on sparc Solaris)

[Jeff Sturm]

On Mon, 21 May 2001, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 09:53:59AM +0100, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> > ld.so.1: ./hello: fatal: relocation error: R_SPARC_32: file
> > /opt/gcc/lib/libgcj.
> > so.2: symbol __gxx_personality_v0: offset 0xff2e2319 is non-aligned
> 
> What assembler is being used?  It should have produced R_SPARC_UA32.

GNU as.  The native assembler indeed generates R_SPARC_UA32, but GNU does
not (or at least did not... I'm building a new snapshot now).

Is there a good reason these words aren't aligned anyhow?

Jeff