On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Joel Brobecker <brobec...@adacore.com> wrote: > I was able to speak to Tristan, yesterday, and he confirmed that > we haven't been able to contribute a few of the patches he wrote. > Unfortunately, his TODO list is more than full, at the moment, and > we don't think he'll have time to work on that for a while. I might > have time in the next few weeks to track them down - if I do, I will > post them. > > With all patches, we are able to bootstrap GCC 4.7. But we haven't > tried the HEAD version. From David's report, it sounds like we should > expect additional work if we want to do it.
It would be helpful for Adacore to contribute the support upstream into the FSF tree, not only to make GNU Binutils more useful on AIX but to avoid others duplicating your work -- especially in incompatible ways. The large TOC feature (cmodel=large) is not used by default and the TLS feature is not enabled by default, so HEAD probably should bootstrap with your private changes to Binutils. TLS tests for assembler support, so that should fail with Binutils. I had wanted your feedback about TLS within Ada before enabling the configuration test by default, but that apparently will not be possible with the way that Adacore's development model on AIX has diverged. Thanks, David
