egcs on AIX: native or gnu ld?

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Joe Buck writes:

>> | 5) What about including support of shared libraries with native ld to the
>> | future snapshots of egcs?

Joe> g++ never worked with only a native ld on non-ELF systems.  Something
Joe> has to resolve the constructors.

	I don't think he meant native-ld alone.  I assumed that he meant
collect2+native-ld instead of gnu-ld.  Unfortunately, gnu-ld does not work
very well with AIX, particularly newer releases.  This is partially due to
the difficult that I have encountered trying to extract the design
documents from IBM's RS/6000 Division to ease Cygnus's engineering effort.
The internal details are not very well documented in AIX's online
documentation.

David

These are my own opinions; I am not speaking as an official representative
of IBM Corporation.
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