Re: Criteria for adding AIX as a secondary platform.

[swamy sangamesh via Gcc]

Thank you all for your response.

I would be posting regression test results regularly and will work on
setting up a buildbot for AIX.

I can see that currently the AIX build is broken with the below error.

In file included from ./tm.h:25,
                 from /opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/gcc/gcc/backend.h:28,
                 from /opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/gcc/gcc/tree.cc:33:
/opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/gcc/gcc/tree.cc: In function 'tree_node*
generate_internal_label(const char*)':
/opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/gcc/gcc/config/rs6000/xcoff.h:206:30:
error: 'rs6000_xcoff_strip_dollar' was not declared in this scope
  206 |   sprintf (LABEL, "*%s..%u", rs6000_xcoff_strip_dollar (PREFIX),
(unsigned) (NUM))
      |                              ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/opt/freeware/src/packages/BUILD/gcc/gcc/tree.cc:819:3: note: in expansion
of macro 'ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL'
  819 |   ASM_GENERATE_INTERNAL_LABEL (tmp, prefix, num++);

This seems to have caused by
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commitdiff;h=0337e3c2743ca0c57da8c6b78b725a7d83f0b721

Analysing more on this failure.

Thanks,
Sangamesh

On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 8:48 PM David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote:

> The general criteria for primary, secondary, and tertiary platforms are
> described on the page to which you linked.
>
> The choice of level is decided by the GCC Steering Committee in
> consultation with the GCC Release Managers and the maintainers for the
> targets / platforms.
>
> AIX is an unusual platform that always has required extra effort from the
> GCC community.  The reduction in participation and investment from IBM
> means that the GCC community cannot tie its functional status to the
> release criteria for GCC.
>
> Thanks, David
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:48 AM swamy sangamesh <
> swamy.sangam...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Would like to know the criteria for adding AIX as a secondary platform.
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-15/criteria.html
>>
>> Willing to participate in the work needed for the platform to be added as
>> primary and secondary.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Sangamesh
>>
>

-- 
Thanks & Regards,
Sangamesh