Re: HPUX/Solaris status

["John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>]

In <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-01/msg01052.html>:

> Thanks to Christian Iseli, we now know that 
>   
>     - HPUX 10.20 fails to bootstrap.
> 
>     (Jeff is working on this.)

Here is my 2 cents worth on this.  HPUX 10.20 and probably 11 fail to
bootstrap at the moment because an attempt to fix a problem with the
management of the pic offset table register didn't work.  This is now
almost resolved.  However, another patch is needed before the source
will build again.  The header file problems are a result of miscompilation
of the generation programs.

However, there are other PIC code generation problems which are more
serious and far from solved.  There are reload problems with PIC symbols.
For example, this stopped my latest attempt to build libstdc++ v3.  I
have been trying to work through the bugs in building gcc with -fPIC
under hpux 10.20.  If I can build gcc with -fPIC, I will believe that
PIC code generation under hpux is working reasonably well.  However,
this effort has been stalled by the above problem and other build problems
that cropped up in the last couple of weeks.

Cheers \_/,
Dave
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