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| From: vd09+@andrew.cmu.edu (Vincent M. Del Vecchio)
| Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
| Subject: Help with gcc on PS/2 AIX
| Sender: help-gcc-request@prep.ai.mit.edu
| To: help-gcc@prep.ai.mit.edu
| 
| Has anyone built gcc on this system?  It seems to be using COFF, and if
| I understand it correctly, that means that I can either use the system
| assembler, linker, etc., and possibly lose the ability to run gdb (?),
| or use gas, gld, gdb, and lose the ability to use the system utils.  I
| would prefer the former, but the native compiler seems to generate
| debugging code in a strange format and the assembler chokes on gcc's
| debugging info.  Has anyone run into this problem before?
| 
| Thanks,
| 
| -Vincent Del Vecchio
| vd09@andrew.cmu.edu
| #include "stdsig.h"
| 

I have built the version of gcc on the PS2 AIX.  The standard IBM assember
knows about the COFF debug statements but IBM has chosen to ignore COFF.
So the strange AIX assembler will not complain about gcc COFF debug but
will just ignore them.

To get around that problem I have a version of gas that will generate
COFF and that is compatible with the standard ibm linker. To install
and use it you just need to copy gas to /usr/local/lib/gcc-as, no
recompile of gcc is needed.

I have also a version of gdb that will understand about COFF for the PS2
AIX. The standard dbx understand only debug instructions generated by
the standard cc.

I can send the diffs for gas-1.37 and gdb-3.91.4 to who ever wants them.

Minh Tran-Le.
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