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AIX4.3.2: problem with 64-bit .o's
- To: "'bu'" <binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Subject: AIX4.3.2: problem with 64-bit .o's
- From: "Bleser, Pascal" <PBleser at atos-group dot com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 13:51:24 +0100
- Cc: "Engel, Christian" <CEngel at atos-group dot com>, "Zimmermann, Armin" <AZimmermann at atos-group dot com>
Hi ;)
I've downloaded the latest snapshot of the GNU binutils from
sourceware.cygnus.com and built them on a AIX 4.3.2 box (IBM F50).
Now ar works (with binutils 2.9.1, the new "big format" archives
were not supported), but nm complains about not recognizing 64-bit
object files (all those *_64.o-files) - it rather looks like warnings,
because nm goes on and works properly for 32-bit obj-files.
But after having a look at the bfd code for RS6000, it looks like
64-bit-objs *are* supported (yes, I've also tried building the bfd
with --enable-64bit-bfd: it didn't help :( )...
Is there anyone on this list working on AIX 4.3.2 who could give me
some help and share his/her experiences ?
We're using loats of GNU tools (especially the GCC 2.95.2 compiler
set for C and C++) on our boxes and it's really a big, big problem
if we can't get it to work properly.
Although, at first, it doesn't look like a big problem: all the obj-files
are shipped in 32 (foo.o) *and* 64 (foo_64.o) bit format in all the
AIX archives. But I didn't try gdb nor g++ yet... :\
BTW, what does the statement
" # The configure and build of ld are currently disabled because
# GNU ld is known to be broken for AIX 4.2 and 4.3 (at least)
# The symptom is that GDBtk 4.18 fails at startup with a segfault
# if linked by GNU ld, but not if linked by the native ld."
mean in binutils-000322/configure.in ?
thanks for any help...
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