ld with aix-xcoff... ever?

[Erik Shold]

To Whom It May Concern,

I am in the process of revising our assembly automation process to use the
gas assembler/loader configured for a powerpc-linux environment.  Given
that we have a large regression suite of assembly test cases written with
aix syntax, I've had to configure gas on lunix as a cross-assembler (host
= linux, target = aix).  However, as you know, ld is broken for aix, so I
can't set it up with this configuration to get it to input and output xcoff
rather than elf.  My question is, will GNU be adding aix-xcoff support for
ld any time in the foreseeable future?

Thanks Much,

Erik A. Shold
IBM - PowerPC Microelectronics