<snip> > > As I've already told, I have used GNU LD and GNU AS from binutils-2.23.1 > while building gcc-4.7.2 natively on Solaris 10/SPARC. Do you have a posted result set ? I was unable to get a *reasonable* result on Solaris 10 sparc and the very best that I could get was this : http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2012-11/msg01367.html Not a very satisfactory result. Were you able to get a better result? What compiler did you bootstrap with? What linker and assembler and any other tools from outside the commercial Solaris tools ? Dennis Clarke