On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 2:11 AM, David Edelsohn <dje....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis > <g...@integrable-solutions.net> wrote: > >>> xlc -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti conftest.c >>> >>> fails. I don't think -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions does what GCC expects. >> >> Thanks for these data. I think -fno-rtti and -fno-exceptions don't make >> much sense at the linker level so we should leave them out, and use >> them only when "compiling", e.g. with "-c". > > It is used when compiling, e.g. gcov.c, but when compiling and linking > directly from source without an intermediate object file.
These flags should be only used for stage2+ or when compiling with GCC. Did you try to bootstrap with xlc or did you use --disable-bootstrap? gcov.c is supposed to be compiled with the built GCC C++ compiler. Richard. > - David
