From 1405141bc5d7d430de641f92dd8c2f3ebce27e3d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Nicolaescu Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 16:47:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 From-SVN: r52526 --- gcc/ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ gcc/doc/install.texi | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/gcc/ChangeLog b/gcc/ChangeLog index 579cdf6802b..cd0ffc7e5c3 100644 --- a/gcc/ChangeLog +++ b/gcc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2002-04-19 Dan Nicolaescu + Gerald Pfeifer + + * 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 PR c++/6352 diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index efd2c0e9659..423be206928 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: -- 2.30.2