Hi Gerald, I have one comment. The only target currently supported is hppa64-hp-hpux11*. While gas is required, only the HP ld works.
Otherwise, the change looks fine. Dave On 2023-12-16 8:35 p.m., Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
John, Jeff, I suggest to streamline the hppa*-hp-hpux* installation instructions as follows. Okay? In fact in the following sections there is even more, and more specific material, which would be great could you have a look at and help trim. Gerald >From 52149282c3a77ccda6385f06f36323c71b26491a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 09:33:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] install: Streamline the hppa*-hp-hpux* section gcc: PR target/69374 * doc/install.texi (Specific) <hppa*-hp-hpux*>: Remove a note on GCC 4.3. Remove details on how the HP assembler, which we document as not working, breaks. --- gcc/doc/install.texi | 17 ----------------- 1 file changed, 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 5ec81098d47..70d46feabf6 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -4121,8 +4121,6 @@ longer a multiple of 2 bytes. @end html @anchor{hppa-hp-hpux} @heading hppa*-hp-hpux* -Support for HP-UX version 9 and older was discontinued in GCC 3.4. - We require using gas/binutils on all hppa platforms. Version 2.19 or later is recommended.@@ -4130,21 +4128,6 @@ It may be helpful to configure GCC with the@uref{./configure.html#with-gnu-as,,@option{--with-gnu-as}} and @option{--with-as=@dots{}} options to ensure that GCC can find GAS@.-The HP assembler should not be used with GCC. It is rarely tested and may-not work. It shouldn't be used with any languages other than C due to its -many limitations. - -Specifically, @option{-g} does not work (HP-UX uses a peculiar debugging -format which GCC does not know about). It also inserts timestamps -into each object file it creates, causing the 3-stage comparison test to -fail during a bootstrap. You should be able to continue by saying -@samp{make all-host all-target} after getting the failure from @samp{make}. - -Various GCC features are not supported. For example, it does not support weak -symbols or alias definitions. As a result, explicit template instantiations -are required when using C++. This makes it difficult if not impossible to -build many C++ applications. - There are two default scheduling models for instructions. These are PROCESSOR_7100LC and PROCESSOR_8000. They are selected from the pa-risc architecture specified for the target machine when configuring.
-- John David Anglin dave.ang...@bell.net
