From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13424 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2013 14:46:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 13398 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2013 14:46:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mel.act-europe.fr (HELO mel.act-europe.fr) (194.98.77.210) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:45:55 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-smtp.eu.adacore.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FA9290008; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:46:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from mel.act-europe.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.eu.adacore.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id XyCfMnu24KWg; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:46:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from chelles.act-europe.fr (chelles.act-europe.fr [10.10.0.160]) by mel.act-europe.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 007A9290006; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:46:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by chelles.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 525) id F2E131EA005A; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:46:01 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:46:00 -0000 From: Arnaud Charlet To: David Edelsohn Cc: Joel Brobecker , Tristan Gingold , Tom Tromey , David Taylor , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb Message-ID: <20130108144601.GB27385@adacore.com> References: <20130104041232.GA3567@adacore.com> <20130105075300.GG3567@adacore.com> <20130105145213.GK3567@adacore.com> <20130106070008.GL3567@adacore.com> <20130108081042.GR3567@adacore.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2013-01/txt/msg00032.txt.bz2 > It would be helpful for Adacore to contribute the support upstream > into the FSF tree, not only to make GNU Binutils more useful on AIX > but to avoid others duplicating your work -- especially in > incompatible ways. Indeed. > The large TOC feature (cmodel=large) is not used by default and the > TLS feature is not enabled by default, so HEAD probably should > bootstrap with your private changes to Binutils. TLS tests for > assembler support, so that should fail with Binutils. > > I had wanted your feedback about TLS within Ada before enabling the > configuration test by default, but that apparently will not be > possible with the way that Adacore's development model on AIX has > diverged. We haven't done any work to support TLS in gnu as/ld on AIX (other than ignore these sections for now to avoid generating hard errors), so enabling TLS in GCC would indeed cause some troubles, although we don't use TLS directly in GNAT. Arno