On 14 Oct 2008 at 16:00, Gert Doering wrote:
Hi Gnu Pascal list,
we're currently using IBM's xpc pascal compiler on IBM AIX 5.3.
New machines are being shipped with AIX 6, and IBM's xpc is no longer supported there - for the time being, it actuall works (the xpc frontend generated intermediate code, and the second stage compiler still groks it).
Management is not happy about this, as it might break any day, and I have been asked to "provide GPC" on AIX 6.
Googling seems to suggest that the earliest release of GCC to work on AIX 6 is gcc 4.2.4
This mailing list's archive suggests that GPC and GCC 4.2 do not yet work together, due to larger efforts required due to backend changes (Waldek's mail from March 12, 2008).
Have you actually tried compiling gpc on that platform? I don't think there's anything wrong, in principle, with using gcc-4.2.x or higher to compile gpc based on an earlier gcc (e.g., 3.4.x) back end.
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