[Bug target/10129] Ada bootstrap fails on PPC-Darwin - invalid assembler emitted - PIC related

[Zack Weinberg]

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