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Re: [Bug target/10129] Ada bootstrap fails on PPC-Darwin - invalidassembler emitted - PIC related
- From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Dale Johannesen <dalej at apple dot com>
- Cc: Geert Bosch <bosch at gnat dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 15:13:29 -0700
- Subject: Re: [Bug target/10129] Ada bootstrap fails on PPC-Darwin - invalidassembler emitted - PIC related
- References: <946BA19A-ACD8-11D7-B1ED-000393D76DAA@apple.com>
Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com> writes:
> On Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 01:52 PM, Geert Bosch wrote:
>> Anyway, I'm quite unhappy that the whole Darwin PIC code and design
>> is considered "horribly ugly" and "broken".
>
> So are we. It predates anybody now working at Apple, and has
> successfully
> resisted all attempts to rewrite it more cleanly. Feel free to help.
You *could* just throw it all over and go for one of the known-not-
horribly-ugly ELF ABIs that already exist for the PPC... ;-)
zw