EGCS build failure on AIX 4.2

[David Edelsohn]

>>>>> Andrey Slepuhin writes:

Andrey> As I remember, official gnu ld (2.8.1) doesn't work correctly on AIX4.2.
Andrey> However, problem was fixed in development snapshots. Ian Lance Tailor
Andrey> sent a patch to 2.8.1 sources to egcs mailing list (letter from 9 Oct).
Andrey> But I still had problems with complicated C++ code, this cause me
Andrey> to look more closely at AIX ld+collect2 solution, which now seems
Andrey> to be stable (except some problems with shared libraries+rtti+exceptions).

	I believe that GNU ld was not using strict enough alignment, but
that was causing failure when a program was invoked, not when it was
compiled(?).  In another message, Doug seemed to imply that GNU as was
producing code at which AIX ld balked on AIX 4.2.  I was not aware of that
type of problem with GNU as on AIX 4.2.  I am not sure the build and
configuration were restarted cleanly enough to be sure of this assembler
problem.

David