Re: egcs-1.1: AIX problems

[Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>]

  In message <XFMail.980716131627.pooh@msu.ru>you write:
  > Hi Jeffrey,
  > 
  > Before egcs-1.1 release I want to ask about a status of some
  > egcs problems on AIX.
  > 
  > 1) What about multithreading support on AIX? As I understand,
  >    --enable-threads configure option now stands not only for objc,
  >    but it should enable generation of thread-safe libraries. If yes,
  >    what changes are necessary to do this on AIX? Note, if
  >    thread-safe exception handling will be enabled, then only -mthreads
  >    compiler option is needed.
No clue.  As a generality I don't deal with C++ issues at all, and
the majority of the work in this area has been for C++ thread safe
exception handling.  I have no idea what needs to be done.

  > 2) What about a status of David Edelsohn's patch solving the
  >    __builtin_setjmp problems with shared libraries? This patch never
  >    was merged into main tree, though it works fine for me.
Could just have been forgotten.  You should ping David since it's his
patch and his call to install it or wait.


  > 3) What about a problem with duplicated typeinfo nodes? Jason said,
  >    that we need another method of comparing typeinfo nodes on platforms
  >    where linker cannot resolve duplicated symbols into unique instance,
  >    but I don't see any changes. And this problem makes usage of shared
  >    libraries with RTTI and exception handling hardly possible.
I don't think anyone is working on this.

jeff