[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > The GNU binutils are already in Solaris. But since Sun's ld generates > more efficient executables and because Sun's as is more uptodate wrt > certain instructions on SPARC, they're gas/gld.
Unfortunately, the picture on x86 (and amd64 in particular) is different wrt. as/gas: while GCC can (and long did) support the use of /usr/ccs/bin/as on x86, the Sun as lacks (or lacked) a couple of features necessary for amd64 support: I noticed a couple of them when trying to get the csl-sol210-branch of GCC to work with Sun as: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-11/msg00908.html Some of the easier changes are in GCC mainline right now (and I'll commit to the 4.0 branch for 4.0.2 once I get to it), but other issues probably need patches to Sun as since they seem to be hard to work around in GCC. I think I raised a couple of the issues found during S10 Platinum Beta, but never got a reaction. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org