As of 20080724, mainline doesn't bootstrap on sparc-sun-solaris2.11 (and probably every sparc target) like this:
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in `/vol/gccsrc/obj/gcc-4.4.0-20080724/11-gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.11/libgcc': configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile See `config.log' for more details. make[2]: *** [configure-stage1-target-libgcc] Error 1 In config.log, I find configure:2590: checking for suffix of object files configure:2611: /vol/gccsrc/obj/gcc-4.4.0-20080724/11-gcc/./gcc/xgcc -B/vol/gccsrc/obj/gcc-4.4.0-20080724/11-gcc/./gcc/ -B/vol/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.11/bin/ -B/vol/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.11/lib/ -isystem /vol/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.11/include -isystem /vol/gcc/sparc-sun-solaris2.11/sys-include -c -g -O2 conftest.c >&5 cc1: internal compiler error: in cl_optimization_save, at options.c:5066 options.c:5066 has gcc_assert (IN_RANGE (flag_pcc_struct_return, 0, 255)); The problem is obviously that DEFAULT_PCC_STRUCT_RETURN is -1 in config/sparc/sparc.h, which works ok with the int flag_pcc_struct_return variable, but not with unsigned char flag_pcc_struct_return in options.h (struct cl_optimization). I couldn't easily find my way through the maze of opt[ch]-gen.awk to fix this, though. One workaround might be to declare fpcc-struct-return in common.opt, like e.g. align_functions. -- Summary: [4.4 regression] Bootstrap failure on sparc: assertion failure in options.c Product: gcc Version: 4.4.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: major Priority: P3 Component: bootstrap AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: ro at gcc dot gnu dot org GCC target triplet: sparc-sun-solaris2* http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=36918