Re: [Pnet-developers] Re: [DotGNU]Portable.net on AIX 5+

[Rhys Weatherley]

On Wednesday 01 December 2004 01:53 pm, Peter Colson wrote:
> Rhys &/or Gopal,
>
> I see AIX code segments in pnet, but they are light on for version
> info. A link in aix_irix_threads.c took me to an AIX 5L 5.2 reference.
> A comment in gcconfig.h refers to AIX 3.x.
>
> Do you recall anything more substantial than this about AIX versions
> that pnet works under?

That stuff comes from the third-party libgc package, so we don't really know 
much about how it works across AIX versions.

> Also interested in whether IBM native compilers (VisualAge) were used
> or gcc ported to AIX?
>
> (Noted a reference to AIX on //www.dotgnu.org, but a search on
> //www.getdotgnu.com for "AIX" yielded no hits.)

Since AIX isn't a highly used OS by the rank and file DotGNU'ers, anyone who 
has AIX is pretty much on their own.  We will of course accept patches to fix 
any problems that are found.  We just aren't in a position to find them 
ourselves or to document all of the versions that it does or does not work 
with.

I suppose this is a long-winded way of saying that in the absence of an AIX 
volunteer, you just became it. :-)

Cheers,

Rhys.