Okay, someone here must know (and please reply directly to me on this
subject).

I've been told that GNU binutils 2.8.1 is broken on alpha--namely, the
linker.  I'd like to know whether the assembler is also a problem, and what,
specifically, the problem(s) with ld are.

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