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Re: [PATCH] For broken exception handling in GDB on AIX platform
- From: Nitish Kumar Mishra <mishra dot nitish dot 88 at gmail dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 13:09:47 +0530
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] For broken exception handling in GDB on AIX platform
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Hi Jeff,
Our AIX team is parallely working on the issue that why EH is not
working with static linking on AIX. For time being this patch
will be work around for the issue.
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 1:07 AM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/26/2017 06:05 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>> I got some review comment from Bernhard Reutner-Fischer, and I have
>>> updated the patch accordingly.
>>> This patch is for bug opened
>>> here:https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21187
>>
>>
>> This patch has been identified as one of the desirable patches
>> to have for the GDB 8.0 release, for which we are hoping to create
>> the branch ASAP. Without this patch, it would be difficult for
>> users on AIX to build a functional debugger.
>>
>> Would it be possible to help Nitish through the review and approval
>> process?
>>
>> Here is a ChangeLog entry:
>>
>> * configure.ac: Add support for --disable-staticlib.
>> * configure: Regenerate.
>>
>> Can someone review the patch, please?
>
> Isn't this just papering over the problem by just disabling static linking
> rather than digging into why EH is not working with static linking on AIX?
>
> It'd be different if there was some fundamental reason why EH could not work
> with static linking on AIX.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Jeff
>