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Re: Limited success with 3.0 branch on AIX


On May 1,  1:12pm, David Edelsohn wrote:

> 	The closest AIX type seems to be C_GSYM (stabs N_GSYM).  Does GDB
> for AIX care about the gcc2_compiled symbol?

I didn't think so at first, but now that I've looked at it for a
while, I see that rs6000-tdep.c uses generic_use_struct_convention()
which cares about whether "gcc2_compiled." was seen when reading the
symbols.

> Is using the N_GSYM type (whose value is ignored, according to the
> documentation) okay?

It looks okay to me, but I'm not a stabs expert.  

> The semantics of a global symbol seem the closest to a N_OPT
> comment.  I do not understand enough about the significance of the
> stab type to know if this proposal would be satisfactory.
> 
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2001-04/msg01459.html

What was the convention used by gcc on AIX prior to Zack Weinberg's
changes?

Kevin


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