libjava bootstrap failure on sparc-sun-solaris2.8

Tue Jun 4 14:57:00 GMT 2002

 From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
 Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:53:10 +0200 (CEST)
 On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, David S. Miller wrote:
 >> Seen on a sparc-sun-solaris2.8 box with 512MB of main memory and 1GB swap,
 >> that is, 1.5GB of virtual memory, using Solaris native ld.
 > Strange, works for me with 128MB of ram and no swap under Linux/SPARC
 > with GNU ld.

 Could it be that the GNU tools (ld,...) simply are that much better
 than Sun's?
I'm skeptical that it's as wide a gap as 1.5GB vs. 128MB.