assert failure in CVS ld

[Phil Edwards]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:07:42PM -0800, ncm-nospam@cantrip.org wrote:
> 
> I am trying to bootstrap today's CVS gcc on sparc64-sun-solaris2.8.
> I extracted CVS binutils today, and configured explicitly as 
> "sparc64-sun-solaris2.8" (which configure failed to deduce by itself).

config.guess will never default to the 64-bit version under Solaris, even if
a 64-bit kernel was booted.  It's possibly unintuitive, but I can understand
the reasoning:  a 32-bit binary produced by gcc can run under either kernel,
but a 64-bit binary can only run under the 64-bit kernel.  So safety calls
for the 64-bit mode to always be the default.

I was under the impression that the CPU name was sparcv9 not sparc64, since
"sparcv9" is the name of the ISA itself.  But I've seen both names used;
maybe they're synonyms?


> The line that fails is
> 
>       BFD_ASSERT (shdr->sh_entsize == sizeof (Elf_External_Rela));
> 
> in elf_link_read_relocs_from_section (
>      abfd, shdr, external_relocs, internal_relocs).

Whoa, haven't seen that one before.


Phil

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