AIX

bakunin,


I have already tried the GCC version from Michael Perzls page to compile a software that is not avaiable as a RPM (Hercules Mainframe Emulator). Even newer GCC version have the same problem with inline assembler code like this:

Code:

1:  lwarx   25,0,31 
    cmpw    0,25,30 
    bne 2f 
    stwcx.  0,0,31 
    bne-    1b 
    sync 
 2:

I remember, that XL C/C++ did not have this problem.


I also had to change a lot of other code to get a (almost) usable running version of Hercules.

I am well aware that GCC has its shortcomings with AIX. i suggested Michael Perzls (and Michael Felts) page because i know for a fact both of them use XlC (not GCC) for compilation. It might have been that Michael Perzl had already compiled (and packaged) the software you were looking for so you could have tried it even if you don't have a XlC yourself.

In general i would not use any software compiled with GCC under AIX for any productive system (and probably not even test systems). The code quality - as you said already, especially when it comes to inline assembler - is terrible.

Another problem is that memory management in AIX is unlike any other OS i know and some programs which behave well under Linux may become memory sinks in AIX when compiled with GCC for a reason i do not claim to understand fully. But then i am so far removed from software development nowadays that this may be understandable. The days when i developed software instead of systems administration are 25 years past.

I hope this helps.

bakunin