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| author | Dan Nicolaescu <dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> | 2002-04-19 16:47:09 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@gcc.gnu.org> | 2002-04-19 16:47:09 +0000 |
| commit | 1405141bc5d7d430de641f92dd8c2f3ebce27e3d (patch) | |
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install.texi (Specific, [...]): Mention that binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's...
* doc/install.texi (Specific, sparc-sun-solaris2*): Mention that
binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's
native tools.
Co-Authored-By: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
From-SVN: r52526
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diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 579cdf6..cd0ffc7 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2002-04-19 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> + Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> + + * doc/install.texi (Specific, sparc-sun-solaris2*): Mention that + binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's + native tools. + 2002-04-19 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> PR c++/6352 diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index efd2c0e..423be20 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -3443,6 +3443,11 @@ There are patches for Solaris 2.6 (105633-56 or newer for SPARC, @end html @heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2*}sparc-sun-solaris2* +When GCC is configured to use binutils 2.11.2 or later the binaries +produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools; +this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging +information. + Sun @command{as} 4.x is broken in that it cannot cope with long symbol names. A typical error message might look similar to the following: |