Compiler question

[Volker Simonis]

We only use and support xlC (altough you may remember that we need a
very specific version as long as the problems in the new compilers
haven’t been resolved). So I think for the beginning we can go with
xlC.

I have no idea how stable the gcc/gdb toolchain is on AIX and we've
never investigated this although the chance of being able to use gdb
instead of dbx seems tempting:) Do you have any experience here?


On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 6:57 PM, Steve Poole <spoole at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> The new build process in JDK8 assumes that the default choice for C compilers are gcc  and g++.
> My current attempt to build on AIX overides this assumption and tries to force the use of xlc and xlC.
>
> A question -  what C compilers should we support on AIX?   Just the IBM versions or should we allow the open source versions too?
>
> Cheers
>
> Steve
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