From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1516 invoked by alias); 8 Jan 2013 14:38:11 -0000 Received: (qmail 1368 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Jan 2013 14:38:08 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-vc0-f177.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f177.google.com) (209.85.220.177) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:37:32 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f177.google.com with SMTP id m8so433071vcd.8 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:37:31 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.115.20 with SMTP id g20mr86806230vcq.31.1357655851049; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.220.23.197 with HTTP; Tue, 8 Jan 2013 06:37:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20130108081042.GR3567@adacore.com> References: <87hamy42ua.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <20130104041232.GA3567@adacore.com> <20130105075300.GG3567@adacore.com> <20130105145213.GK3567@adacore.com> <20130106070008.GL3567@adacore.com> <20130108081042.GR3567@adacore.com> Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 14:38:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb From: David Edelsohn To: Joel Brobecker Cc: Tom Tromey , David Taylor , binutils@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, gdb@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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/msg00031.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: > I was able to speak to Tristan, yesterday, and he confirmed that > we haven't been able to contribute a few of the patches he wrote. > Unfortunately, his TODO list is more than full, at the moment, and > we don't think he'll have time to work on that for a while. I might > have time in the next few weeks to track them down - if I do, I will > post them. > > With all patches, we are able to bootstrap GCC 4.7. But we haven't > tried the HEAD version. From David's report, it sounds like we should > expect additional work if we want to do it. 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. 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. Thanks, David