http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=54155
--- Comment #9 from damz <dshanke at gmail dot com> 2012-08-09 12:02:42 UTC --- (In reply to comment #8) > > --- Comment #7 from damz <dshanke at gmail dot com> 2012-08-08 17:40:37 UTC > > --- > > > How I wish that the supportability matrix was published. > > I hope you understand that this is completely unfeasible: I'm currently > testing gcc 4.6/4.7/4.8 on Solaris 8/9/10/11, both sparc and x86. > Adding older gcc releases (which are no longer maintained anyway) and > more than one (the current) binutils release to that testing simply > cannot be done in reasonable time, with finite amounts of diskspace, and > man power to analyse the results. > > > Did I miss to see a document saying that ld 2.21 will not be supported by > > GCC > > 4.4.4 and below? :( > > No, but in general (which is not yet true for gcc 4.4) I try to list the > latest binutils version known to work with that version of gcc. With > newer binutils releases, you're on your own. They may well work, but no > guarantees. > > > I was hoping that backward compatibility was mostly retained! > > Agreed, but as I said when I found that gcc 4.4 doesn't work with gld > 2.21, I immediately backported the patch to that release branch. > > Rainer Thank you Rainer. I really appreciate your transparent replies. Cheers! signing off damz
