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Re: bootstrap of 3.4.1 RC1 failed on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 03:14:18PM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Joe Buck wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:58:06PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> >
> >> Did GCC 3.4.0 bootstrap on AIX 4.3.3? GCC's use of forward
> >>references in assembly language output is a long-standing problem on AIX.
> >
> >
> > I just verified that 3.4.0 has the same problem; the libstdc++ build dies
> > at the same point.
> >
> > However, as I said, 3.3.4 works.
>
> That sounds like a regression, then; if you want to file a PR please go
> ahead.
Yes, it is a regression.
> I'm not going to consider that a showstopper, since it didn't work in
> 3.4.0 and since David's comments indicate that this might not be
> tractable to fix without modifications to binutils.
Another possible fix would be to re-order the assembly language output
so that the thunks don't need forward references. A third possibility
would be to use gas, if it can be made to work.
In any case, this is now PR 16304.