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Re: Stabilization status
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com, law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Stabilization status
- From: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:43:58 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
> From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
>
> I can understand the desire to not spend a lot of time on old systems
> like this because I feel the same way about hpux9 and earlier systems.
> However, fixing things so that the compiler "just works" on these older
> versions of aix4.1 should be trivial and not take a lot of time.
>
> We just recognize the old versions and use a different x-blah file for
> them. Right?
>
> Given the potential number of these boxes that are out there and the
> ease of detecting them and handling them cleanly, I think we should bite
> the bullet and handle them.
By handling them I take it you mean we add -mminimal-toc to the
bootstrap. However I think David said this makes cc1 slower.
Thus detecting the version number of AIX might not be enough. I think
we want to only add -mminimal-toc if their AIX version needs it _and_
they haven't installed the magic patch which fixes this.
David, is it possible to generate a C test case? Or run some shell magic
to detect if the patch is installed and -bbigtoc works?
If we can run an autoconf test and it fails, then and only then would we
need to compile with -mminimal-toc.
--Kaveh
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