RFC: add support for building with gcc 4.6 + gold

[Matthias Klose]

On 14.02.2011 16:53, Omair Majid wrote:
> On 02/13/2011 03:45 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes wrote:
>> On 18:29 Fri 11 Feb , Omair Majid wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Building hotspot with gcc 4.6 and gold fails. Please see the bug filed
>>> at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=676659 for details.
>>>
>>> The attached patch fixes it for me. Any thoughts?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Omair
>>
>> Looks good. Committed to HEAD with an appropriate NEWS entry.

It would be good to have build fixes like this on the branches too (pre-approved 
for 1.8).

   Matthias