[aplusdev] AIX port

[John.Mizel at morganstanley.com]

The gcc build was AIX 5 and gcc version 2.9-aix43-010414.

Thanks,
John

On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Blake Yeager/Austin/Sector7 wrote:

> Hi John:
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I was assuming gcc since the source
> is available under the GNU license. I appreciate your pointers and
> comments re problems with initialization of static data members. Are
> you using AIX 4.4 or 5?
>
> -Blake
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John.Mizel at morganstanley.com [mailto:John.Mizel at morganstanley.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 11:49 AM
> To: Blake Yeager/Austin/Sector7
> Cc: aplusdev at d13.com
> Subject: Re: [aplusdev] AIX port
>
>
> Hi Blake,
>
> Which compiler will you be using? Internally we used to build for AIX
> using XLc (3.25 and 4.1) . If you look in a/s.c you will see the define
> HPC_PWR2 (also see a/pwr2hpc.h), which covers optimizations specifically
> for the power architecture. It shouldn't be too difficult to get this
> running.
>
> Most recently we have been building A+ on AIX using gcc.  We have it
> compiled, but have problems on startup with initialization of static data
> members.  We suspect it is a problem with the link and are working with
> IBM to get it resolved.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
> On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Blake Yeager/Austin/Sector7 wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > I've been asked to look at porting A+ to AIX. One of your Web pages
> includes
> > the following statement: "John Mizel developed a manageable build process
> > and worked out porting issues beyond the early SunOS and AIX versions."
> The
> > reference manual also mentions AIX, yet there is no binary distribution.
> >
> > Can anyone comment on the technical issues of doing this port?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Blake
> >
> >
>
>
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