On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobec...@adacore.com> wrote: >> > Can you please clarify what "GNU ld is not completely usable" means? >> > Is that referring to DWARF support? to compatibility with specific AIX >> > releases? to compatibility with AIX DWARF feature? >> >> Sorry, I meant what "GNU ld is now completely usable" means because I >> believe that it actually is NOT completely usable on AIX. > > AdaCore has successfully switched to GNU ld on AIX, tested on AIX > version 5.x and 7.x. We use a version derived from an old HEAD, > I believe, but the latest release might have all the necessary > changes. I cannot tell you that it's perfect, and some options > provided by the native linker might not be implemented (particularly > the options relating to TOCs). But we released GNAT Pro 7.0.1/7.0.2 > using GNU ld early last year, and I don't remember seeing any real > problem being reported. > > We had to do some changes, and make some fixes, mostly done by > Tristan, and normally they should have been contributed to the > FSF tree. Overall, I think we're pretty happy with GNU ld as > of now.
It does not look like the changes were merged into the FSF tree. This also does not support some of the more recent AIX features added to GCC. I also infer that Adacore continues to use the AIX assembler, not GNU as. Thanks, David
