Rainer Orth wrote:
>
> * In the past, it used to be possible to build GCC on x86 with the Sun as
> at least for the 32-bit case. When I recently tried this, I failed
> miserably. This may well be a GCC bug (I'll check) or a workaround might
> be possible. For the 64-bit case, it was never possible to use anything
> but GNU as, although I filed some bug reports early during the
> CodeSourcery port to Solaris 10/x64. Would it be worthwhile to file bugs
> to get this fixed? Recent Sun Studio Express release notes seem to
> indicate that fbe has been updated to be more gas compatible lately.
> Alternatively, one could declare defeat and just use gas with GCC.
At least part of this has an open CR
6302619 amd64 assembly code in ON should be compilable with fbe
I'm not sure what the status is on that.
- Ali
