Building g++ 3.0 under AIX

[Robert Boehne]

David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
> >>>>> 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

I agree with David, it appears to be a bug in the bintuils snapshot
version
of gas.  This error appears under aix 4.3.3.0, with the
snapshot binutils gas (and nothing else from the snapshot).

/tmp/ccFSlmMw.s:2231: Error: Unrecognized opcode: `crnot'
/tmp/ccFSlmMw.s:2240: Warning: Line numbers must be positive integers

make[8]: *** [locale.lo] Error 1
make[8]: Leaving directory
`/tmp_mnt/icarus/tmp/powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0/power/libstdc++-v3/src'


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