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Re: unwind-dw2-fde.c change breaks AIX


On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:06:28PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> The problem is __USER_LABEL_PREFIX__.  What is that macro suppose to do?

It is supposed to evaluate to "_" on targets that prefix
all C symbols with an underscore.

> In config/rs6000/aix.h it is defined a ".".
[...]
> __USER_LABEL_PREFIX__ was defined that way on Mar 16 by Geoff, but I
> cannot find a ChangeLog entry, discussion on gcc-patches, or a reason for
> the change.

This seems incorrect.  Geoff, can you comment?

> 	Because this change completely breaks the build on AIX, it is
> extremely serious.

Worst case, we can just remove the aliasing bits on the
branch and always use the stub function.


r~


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