> I wonder if it might make sense to more strongly suggest to use GNU as
> on AIX? The install manual currently says
>
> The native @command{as} and @command{ld} are recommended for
> bootstrapping
> on AIX@. The GNU Assembler, GNU Linker, and GNU Binutils version 2.20
> is required to bootstrap on AIX 5@. The native AIX tools do
> interoperate with GCC@.
>
> What's the downside of not using the native AIX tools at all (assembler
> and linker)?
FWIW, we've recently made this choice/switch for GNAT at AdaCore, which
allows us in particular to use dwarf-2/3 debug info.
Arno
