On 15 Jul 2010, at 20:34, IainS wrote:
> On 15 Jul 2010, at 19:44, Richard Henderson wrote:
>
>> On 07/15/2010 11:27 AM, IainS wrote:
>>> +#ifndef TARGET_MACHO_BRANCH_ISLANDS
>>> +#  define TARGET_MACHO_BRANCH_ISLANDS 0
>>> +#endif
>>
>> This could go next to the TARGET_MACHO definition in i386.h, for  
>> consistency.
>>
>> From a i386 maintainer perspective, I think this is ok.  I'll defer
>> for ppc and darwin knowledge.
>
> FWIW: At your suggestion,
> since then I've built powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu (crossed from i6868- 
> darwin9) and proved it can compile a trivial source file.
>
> (of course, the patch was already tested on powerpc-apple-darwin9   
> as well)

consolidated patch with the amendments suggested by Richard, ...
... still needs rs6000 and darwin reviews.
thanks,
Iain