[thanks for the general info on what minimal-toc is about, I should
 have mentioned I am familiar with the general issue and with this option]

>       When Ada builds on AIX, libada contains a very large number of TOC
> entries.  Even the smallest, simplest executable overflows because the
> entire TOC is consumed by libada.

That on ther other hand I would like to better understand, since that's
clearly news to me.

Do you have more details ? A PR reference maybe ?

>       When the data section patch is merged into GCC, this may not be
> necessary, so maybe we should just declare GNU Ada unusable on AIX until
> that patch is committed.

Or less drastically, document in install.texi that GNATLIBCFLAGS needs
to include -mminimal-toc on AIX.

Arno

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