From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Edelsohn To: Andrey Slepuhin Cc: egcs@cygnus.com, Doug Semler Subject: Re: EGCS build failure on AIX 4.2 Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1998 02:13:00 -0000 Message-id: <9804071546.AA25180@rios1.watson.ibm.com> References: X-SW-Source: 1998-04/msg00295.html >>>>> Andrey Slepuhin writes: Andrey> As I remember, official gnu ld (2.8.1) doesn't work correctly on AIX4.2. Andrey> However, problem was fixed in development snapshots. Ian Lance Tailor Andrey> sent a patch to 2.8.1 sources to egcs mailing list (letter from 9 Oct). Andrey> But I still had problems with complicated C++ code, this cause me Andrey> to look more closely at AIX ld+collect2 solution, which now seems Andrey> to be stable (except some problems with shared libraries+rtti+exceptions). I believe that GNU ld was not using strict enough alignment, but that was causing failure when a program was invoked, not when it was compiled(?). In another message, Doug seemed to imply that GNU as was producing code at which AIX ld balked on AIX 4.2. I was not aware of that type of problem with GNU as on AIX 4.2. I am not sure the build and configuration were restarted cleanly enough to be sure of this assembler problem. David