------- Comment #4 from pdb_ml at yahoo dot com dot au 2008-01-22 23:49 ------- As the originator of this request I can verify that the patch provided by Fabian Groffen as part of Bug 34775 is functional and works as advertised. I believe the patch should be reviewed and integrated.
The patch does required his associated patch to binutils-2.18 has documented at http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5606 Testing Environment: Sun Solaris 10 Update 4 running on Sun Ultra 40 M2, with a single patch (mentioned above) applied to binutils-2.18 released tar ball. Bootstrapping compiler was gcc-4.1.2. GCC testsuite not run. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30726