[PATCH] Improve and consolidate sparc PIC assembler.

[Torbjorn Granlund]

David Miller <davem at davemloft.net> writes:

  Solaris 9's assembler does not support these relocations at all and
  would therefore not pass my acinclude.m4 test, just as the same test
  does not pass on Solaris 9 when building GCC with the system assembler.
  
OK, good.  The patches from Oracle speak about Solaris 7-9.

  >   Now, once I have the tarball of images created on a machine that has
  >   the buggy assembler with the -D__PIC__ thing added to the gcc command
  >   line, I could look and see how feasible it would be to write detection
  >   code for this bug in the GMP acinclude.m4 macros.
  >   
  > That would be the best approach.  If that is not viable, I think we have
  > to assume solaris <11 (or 12?) has this non-working reloc.
  
  Solaris <10 doesn't support the reloc at all.  Solaris 10 and later does
  but Solaris 10 needs the bug fix.

If we cannot make an configure test, we need to know if there is a
release where the assembler can be trusted.  Perhaps Solaris 11?  And
how about "Open Solaris", "Open Indiana", etc...?

  BTW, I also didn't today's email from you with the test tarball
  results, are you getting a bounce at least?
  
You mailbox really *is* full then.  My maillog claims to have delivered:

Apr 16 12:15:12 shell postfix/smtp[41795]: 1901E212EF: to=<davem at davemloft.net>, relay=shards.monkeyblade.net[149.20.54.216]:25, delay=2, delays=0.02/0.01/1.3/0.66, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 8D0EC5841B1)
 
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Torbjörn