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Re: AIX binaries
- To: Gabriel Dos Reis <Gabriel dot Dos-Reis at cmla dot ens-cachan dot fr>
- Subject: Re: AIX binaries
- From: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 19:07:59 -0400
- cc: Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>, Matt_Conway at i2 dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
>>>>> Gabriel Dos Reis writes:
Gabriel> David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:
Gabriel> | My patch re-invokes mknumeric_limits with the xcompiling flag (or
Gabriel> | whatever it was renamed) if the first attempt to run it fails. If the
Gabriel> | second attempt with xcompiling fails, the developer is SOL and we're back
Gabriel> | to the current behavior.
Gabriel> Hmmm, that sounds a bit contorsious. I would prefer we pass a flag
Gabriel> telling whether to generate <limits> for native build or a cross (in
Gabriel> which case, it would just have to copy a file somewhere).
We already pass that flag. It is/was called xcompiling. The
problem is that one a 32-bit AIX system, the 32-bit version of the library
is native and the 64-bit version effectively is a "cross".
David