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From: Arnaud Charlet <charlet@adacore.com>
To: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,	Perry Smith <pedzsan@gmail.com>, gcc@gcc.gnu.org,	Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: AIX library issues
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> > FWIW, we've recently made this choice/switch for GNAT at AdaCore, which
> > allows us in particular to use dwarf-2/3 debug info.
> 
> Is AdaCore maintaining GNU Binutils on AIX?

We're "maintaining" it sufficiently for our needs, yes.

> I do not believe that
> Binutils implements some toolchain changes to AIX 6.1 and AIX 7.1.

That's quite possible. Currently we support AIX 5.2 and 5.3, so haven't
encountered AIX 6.x or 7.x specific issues.

Do you know if these toolchain changes are significant?

Arno