On 11/20/08 09:32, Rainer Orth wrote: >>> If I understand things correctly, the codebase for /opt/SUNWspro/bin/fbe >>> and /usr/ccs/bin/as is the same, and fixes to the first will eventually >>> make it to the second (which is regularly used by GCC, at least on SPARC; >>> the x86 as is largely unusable for GCC). >> Yes, that is correct. > > Fine. Two questions here: > > * Are there plans to open at least the assembler codebase? This might help > to faster get to the root of problems.
Rainer, I apologize if this is a non-helpful answer - there's an expectation that it may be opened in the future, but there is no specific requirement/timetable to do so. > * 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. I'd request that you submit the bugs. I maintain as-on-Sparc so I can't speak to the priority that the as-on-x86 bugs would receive. But I can say that it's a great help to have them reported. Cheers, Mark > Regards. > Rainer > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rainer Orth, Faculty of Technology, Bielefeld University > _______________________________________________ > tools-compilers mailing list > tools-compilers at opensolaris.org
