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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

  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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