Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

2013-01-05 Thread Joel Brobecker
> I and others have not been able to use GNU as and GNU ld to bootstrap > GCC. The resulting object files and shared objects mostly worked in > small experiments, but failed for larger projects, like GCC. > > Also, GNU as and GNU ld do not contain support for the new > cmodel=large and thread loca

RE: Align a POD srtuct on the stack (aliasing issue with gcc 4.6+)‏

2013-01-05 Thread pps .
> > Question: How can I allocate random amount of stack space (using char > arrays or alloca, and then align pointer to that stack space and > reinterpret this chunk of memory as some structure that has some well > defined layout that guarantees alignment of certain variables as long > as the struc

Align a POD srtuct on the stack (aliasing issue with gcc 4.6+)‏

2013-01-05 Thread pps .
Question: How can I allocate random amount of stack space (using char arrays or alloca, and then align pointer to that stack space and reinterpret this chunk of memory as some structure that has some well defined layout that guarantees alignment of certain variables as long as the structure its

Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

2013-01-05 Thread David Edelsohn
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> 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. > > Tristan is usually pretty good at sending these sorts of patches. > I will ask him on M

gcc-4.7-20130105 is now available

2013-01-05 Thread gccadmin
Snapshot gcc-4.7-20130105 is now available on ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/snapshots/4.7-20130105/ and on various mirrors, see http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html for details. This snapshot has been generated from the GCC 4.7 SVN branch with the following options: svn://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/branches

Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

2013-01-05 Thread Joel Brobecker
> 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. Tristan is usually pretty good at sending these sorts of patches. I will ask him on Monday if some might be missing. He's been extremely busy lately

Re: stabs support in binutils, gcc, and gdb

2013-01-05 Thread David Edelsohn
On Sat, Jan 5, 2013 at 2:53 AM, Joel Brobecker 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 n