Ali Bahrami writes:
> I checked, and it appears that this support was in Solaris 9 FCS,
> as well as Solaris 8 Update 5.
great, thanks. I'll update configure.ac and give it a try.
> I cannot answer the question about the assemblers, but feel pretty
> confident in saying that they probably didn't have much of anything
> to support, and that anything needed was probably in place by
> Solaris 9 FCS. Perhaps one of the compiler experts on this list
> can fill in those details for us.
It seems that the configure script already checks for the .hidden directive
in the assembler used, and correctly detects it e.g. on Solaris 11/SPARC
(where /usr/ccs/bin/as is used), so we're set here.
> It looks to me like it would be safe to assume it will work
> for S9 and up. At a minimum, it should be enabled for S10 and
> up. Any reported problems on those platforms would be fixed
> very quickly.
Right, I'll just try it and report back.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University
