problems with ctype...

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:52:35AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > It certainly works fine for me, but I am not using the same tools.
> > I am using GCC 3.2 with RH modifications and binutils is also a RH version.
> 
> I just tried it with newer binutils (2.12.90.0.15 20020717) and that
> worked fine.  We might need to document the minimal supported binutils
> version.

Ours is binutils 2.13.90.0.2. Well, we need to find out the oldest
binutils which worked ok and also write a binutils testcase whcih will
ensure this will work right from now on.
I think it is an useful feature to be able to access a compat-only variable
(and getting to it through aliases doesn't work because of COPY relocs).

	Jakub