Re: Issue with Latest GDB on AIX with GCC-6.12

[David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>]

On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 6:52 PM, Pedro Alves <pedro@palves.net> wrote:
> On 02/12/2017 09:05 PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
>
>> Investigating the exception handling problem with another non-IBM AIX
>> developer, the problem appears to be that statically linking libgcc
>> and libstdc++ create two, separate and distinct copies of the unwind
>> tables.  These tables are not merged and the unwinder cannot find the
>> EH catcher.  It's not immediately clear why this worked in GCC 4.8 and
>> not in GCC 4.9 and later.
>>
>> GDB with exception handling should work if libgcc and libstdc++ are
>> linked as shared libraries.  The linking error with GCC 6.1 is cockpit
>> error.
>>
>> Can we disable -static-libgcc and -static-libstdc++ for AIX?
>
> Works for me.  Those are added by the top level configure.  They were
> originally added for gcc, we just inherited it.  Ideally adding
> those would be controllable with a configure option, IMO.

We shouldn't disable static-libgcc and static-libstdc++ for GCC.  And
static would be better.  But linking GDB dynamically could be helpful
as an interim work-around.

Thanks, David