Michael Haubenwallner <michael.haubenwallner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > besides i386-solaris2.10, I'm encountering this linker bug on > sparc-solaris2.9 too (works on sparc-solaris10 here) with gcc-4.2.4: > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/tools-linking/2006-October/000229.html > The workaround is to compile with '-fmerge-constants' even with '-g'. > > Question now is, what happened to this patch, as I can't find it in any > gcc-4_*-branch or trunk? > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2006-01/msg00740.html That patch was not applied because -fno-merge-debug-strings was implemented instead. `-fno-merge-debug-strings' Direct the linker to merge together strings which are identical in different object files. This is not supported by all assemblers or linker. This decreases the size of the debug information in the output file at the cost of increasing link processing time. This is on by default. That change fixes the problem by making whether a debug section is mergeable independent of the optimization setting. It is in gcc 4.3 and later. Ian
