Hi Iain,
> This patch removes the disabling of libphobos when the Solaris/x86
> assembler is being used.
>
> Since r11-6373, D symbols are now compressed using back references, this
> helped reduce the average symbol length by a factor of about 3, while
> the longest symbol shrank from 416133 to 1142 characters. So the issues
> that were seen on Solaris/x86 should no longer be a problem.
>
> However, I have only used x86_64-apple-darwin10 for testing, as
> libphobos couldn't be built on that target for the same reason, except
> it was the system linker segfaulting due to long symbol names.
>
> It would be good to know if Solaris has also benefitted from the change.
great, thanks. I'll give this a whirl once today's regular bootstraps
have finished.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
