From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kevin Buettner To: David Edelsohn , Kevin Buettner , Nicholas Duffek Cc: Daniel Berlin , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Limited success with 3.0 branch on AIX Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:21:00 -0000 Message-id: <1010501232104.ZM1713@ocotillo.lan> References: <200105011712.NAA28082@makai.watson.ibm.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-05/msg00030.html On May 1, 1:12pm, David Edelsohn wrote: > The closest AIX type seems to be C_GSYM (stabs N_GSYM). Does GDB > for AIX care about the gcc2_compiled symbol? I didn't think so at first, but now that I've looked at it for a while, I see that rs6000-tdep.c uses generic_use_struct_convention() which cares about whether "gcc2_compiled." was seen when reading the symbols. > Is using the N_GSYM type (whose value is ignored, according to the > documentation) okay? It looks okay to me, but I'm not a stabs expert. > The semantics of a global symbol seem the closest to a N_OPT > comment. I do not understand enough about the significance of the > stab type to know if this proposal would be satisfactory. > > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg01459.html What was the convention used by gcc on AIX prior to Zack Weinberg's changes? Kevin