binutils 2.10.1, Solaris 8, SPARCWorks CC 5.0

[Santeri Paavolainen]

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().

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binutils-2.10.1-sol8-cc.patch
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