Re: binutils 2.10.1, Solaris 8, SPARCWorks CC 5.0

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Santeri,

: The changes in the attached patch were necessary to get binutils 2.10.1 to
: compile on
: 
:       uname:  SunOS kiulu 5.8 Generic sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
:       cc -V:  cc: WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/15 C 5.0
: 
: system with
: 
:       ./configure --enable-targets=all
: 
: Three main things:
: 
:       - Compiler requires that a statement (even empty) must be
:         after labels. Eg. 
: 
:                       foo:
:               }
: 
:         will fail. It must be written like:
: 
:                       foo:
:                       ;
:               }
: 
:       - Void arithmetic is a no-no since apparently sizeof(void *) == 0
:         (changed to do calculations on unsigned char pointers)
: 
:       - Some files use alloca() without including <alloca.h> --
:         Solaris alloca.h defines alloca() as __builtin_alloca().

Thanks very much for supplying these patches.  I have applied them to
the mainline sources (rather than the 2.10.1 sources) so that they
will be in the next major release of binutils.

Cheers
        Nick