install.texi (Specific, [...]): Mention that binutils 2.11.2 and higher generate smaller binaries than Sun's...

* doc/install.texi (Specific, sparc-sun-solaris2*): Mention that
	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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@heading @anchor{sparc-sun-solaris2*}sparc-sun-solaris2*
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: