combreloc and Solaris

[Martin v. Loewis]

For building CVS Python on Solaris 7 and 8 with gcc 3.2 and binutils
2.13, we got a report that the resulting binary crashes when trying to
dlopen a shared library (an extension module).

Further investigation showed that the crash goes away if the library
is linked with -z nocombreloc.

Can anybody offer a theory why this might happen? Is there a known bug
in binutils, or Solaris?

Regards,
Martin