bootstrap of 3.4.1 RC1 failed on powerpc-ibm-aix4.3.3.0

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Wed Jun 30 22:32:00 GMT 2004


Joe Buck wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 02:58:06PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
>>	Did GCC 3.4.0 bootstrap on AIX 4.3.3?  GCC's use of forward
>>references in assembly language output is a long-standing problem on AIX.
> 
> 
> I just verified that 3.4.0 has the same problem; the libstdc++ build dies
> at the same point.
> 
> However, as I said, 3.3.4 works.

That sounds like a regression, then; if you want to file a PR please go 
ahead.

I'm not going to consider that a showstopper, since it didn't work in 
3.4.0 and since David's comments indicate that this might not be 
tractable to fix without modifications to binutils.

Thanks for the testing!

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