From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>
To: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
Cc: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>,
Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>,
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: AIX library issues
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:24:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111025081546.GA62410@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFiYyc3qFiYVwmgT=qzkMgZ3kgztd14AXvtOmv6cp--=aNCnvQ@mail.gmail.com>
> I wonder if it might make sense to more strongly suggest to use GNU as
> on AIX? The install manual currently says
>
> The native @command{as} and @command{ld} are recommended for
> bootstrapping
> on AIX@. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU Binutils version 2.20
> is required to bootstrap on AIX 5@. The native AIX tools do
> interoperate with GCC@.
>
> What's the downside of not using the native AIX tools at all (assembler
> and linker)?
FWIW, we've recently made this choice/switch for GNAT at AdaCore, which
allows us in particular to use dwarf-2/3 debug info.
Arno
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-18 4:48 Perry Smith
2011-10-18 8:30 ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-10-18 10:28 ` Jonathan Wakely
2011-10-18 15:37 ` David Edelsohn
2011-10-24 0:59 ` Perry Smith
2011-10-24 2:36 ` David Edelsohn
2011-10-24 9:45 ` Perry Smith
[not found] ` <5FB999D3-E0FA-4AC7-A26A-DAA4397D833F@gmail.com>
2011-10-25 6:31 ` David Edelsohn
2011-10-25 9:13 ` Richard Guenther
2011-10-25 9:24 ` Arnaud Charlet [this message]
2011-10-25 15:14 ` David Edelsohn
2011-10-25 16:05 ` Arnaud Charlet
2011-11-08 18:44 ` David Edelsohn
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