binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's
native tools.
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+2002-04-19 Dan Nicolaescu <dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu>
+ Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
+
+ * doc/install.texi (Specific, sparc-sun-solaris2*): Mention that
+ binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's
+ native tools.
+
2002-04-19 Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
PR c++/6352
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+When GCC is configured to use binutils 2.11.2 or later the binaries
+produced are smaller than the ones produced using Sun's native tools;
+this difference is quite significant for binaries containing debugging
+information.
+
Sun @command{as} 4.x is broken in that it cannot cope with long symbol names.
A typical error message might look similar to the following: