Re: aix - cc_r vs xlc_r

[email protected] (Nicholas Clark) Tue, 16 Mar 2004 20:28:23 +0000

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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:23:34PM +0200, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> > On AIX, what's the difference between cc_r and xlc_r?
> 
> See /etc/xlc.cfg.
> 
> I vaguely remember that's it's the cc_r that's guaranteed (well, *more*
> guaranteed) to be there, if there's any compiler with reentrant
> libraries.

Which would suggest that parrot's hints files should (could?) be changed to
order the use of cc_r, rather than its current choice of xlc_r ?

Nicholas Clark