Re: GNU as 2.14 on IRIX 6: crashes with shared libs

[Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>]

Richard Sandiford writes:

> Rainier: you say you used "gas 2.14 (and 2.14.90 from current CVS mainline)"
> but which linker?  The 2.14 linker is known not to work with shared libraries.
> That's what my patches were supposed to fix.

I'm always using the native linker.  I just wanted to try switching IRIX 6
(N32 + N64) gcc from native as to gas, everything else stayed the same.

> FWIW, the problems you described were similar to the ones I saw when using
> GNU ld 2.14 (segfaults in rld).  But I haven't seen this sort of problem
> using gas with the native linker.

Strange.  There may be problems introduced by performing these bootstraps
on IRIX 6.5.10m, which is quite old now.  The resulting binaries/shared
libraries still crash the same on 6.5.20f, though, but this might be due to
some bug in the native 6.5.10 linker.  I used that box (a 4 x R10000
Onyx^2) because it's *much* faster than the 2 x R8000 Power Challenge/L or
R12000 O2 I have available otherwise.  I'll retry this over the weekend on
the O2.

	Rainer