Re: [PATCH] Fix PR target/16304: AIX 4.x forward reference proble

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

John David Anglin wrote:

> The HP-UX SOM assembler is even more seriously handicapped that the
> AIX 4.3 assembler.  It's only used by HP C.  Other HP compilers
> generate object code directly.  The capabilites of the SOM linker
> aren't well documented but fortunately HP made a version of their
> linker code public.  This allowed addition of weak and one-only
> support to binutils.  As a result, we now strongly recommend using
> GAS instead of the HP assembler on this target.  It's taken some
> work but the capabilities of GCC under HP-UX 10 are now pretty
> much on a par with those under HP-UX 11.

I think it's perfectly reasonable to get binutils working with various 
systems.  (In fact, I recently took the point of view that it might not 
be worth worrying about supporting Sun's assembler with GCC on Solaris 
10, given that GAS works.)  I'd imagine that David would be happy to 
have people use GAS on AIX 4.3, provided that it works well.

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