------- Additional Comments From dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca
2005-02-15 01:56 -------
Subject: Re: [4.0 Regression] g++.dg/abi/inline1.C fails on hp
> > 3) I'm concerned that the proposed fix requires a linker fix. There won't
> > be a fix for HP-UX 10 and possibly 11.00. There's still interest in
> these
> > system versions for a number of older machines that are still in fairly
> > wide use.
>
> We don't know whether a linker fix is required for those versions (or
> indeed for 11.11, as when testing I tested the patch for 64-bit 11.11 and
> 32-bit 11.23 simultaneously on different systems). The linker problem
> could just happen to be triggered some combination of circumstances that
> happen to arise for libstdc++ on a particular HP-UX release after this
> patch; or when the linker bug is fixed it could turn out that actually
> there is something wrong with the object files generated (which however
> should never cause the linker to crash), whether because of a bug in this
> patch or a bug in the GNU assembler, either of which can be fixed.
The linker doesn't fault if this line is removed:
if (!TREE_ASM_WRITTEN (decl) && TREE_SYMBOL_REFERENCED (id))
I believe that this indicates that a necessary .import statement
has been removed.
Dave
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