Building g++ 3.0 under AIX

David Edelsohn dje@watson.ibm.com
Wed Feb 21 06:24:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> Geoff Keating writes:

Geoff> I believe this is actually a GCC bug because 'crnot' is not a POWER
Geoff> mnemonic and GCC shouldn't be using it when generating POWER
Geoff> mnemonics.  I keep meaning to fix this but haven't had the time.  GCC
Geoff> should generate 'crnor' instead when generating POWER.

Geoff> [It would be really good, if you have an AIX 3.x machine, to check
Geoff> the part after 'I believe'.]

	AIX 4 assembler accepts the PowerPC simplified mnemonic, even in
POWER mode.

	As you said, the real question is whether there are any AIX 3
machines to support any more.

David



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