[HELP] GCC 4.1 branch Ada status on powerpc-darwin?

[Peter O'Gorman]

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Eric Botcazou wrote:
|>Attached is a patch to the 4.1 branch, I think it will apply to mainline
|>too. Branch built fine on powerpc-apple-darwin8.4.0 with c,ada enabled.
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| That's not sufficient: the compiler bootstraps fine, but all the ACATS tests
| fail to link:
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| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
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| So, on Darwin, unlike any other platforms, you need to explicitly pass either
| -static-libgcc or -shared-libgcc to link the EH machinery.  That seems weird.
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| Geoff, any chance to bring Darwin back on par with the other platforms?
|

Since Geoff is worried about future binary compatibility apparently, it
would probably be easier to modify gnatlink.adb to emit -static-libgcc or
- -shared-libgcc depending on whether static or shared gnatlib is used.

Sorry, I know nothing about ada or I'd help.

Peter
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