Re: egcs 1.1b make check failures under glibc 2.0.98

[Prasong Aroonruviwat <psa at ksc dot net dot th>]

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On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Jack Howarth wrote:

>   This is most likely a bug in glibc 2.0.98 but I was wondering if
> anyone outside of the linuxppc group had noticed it. We are seeing
> massive failures when doing 'make check' on egcs 1.1b after building
> it against glibc 2.0.98. The failures start with the hounddog test in
> libio/tests. That failure can be reproduced by...
> 
> g++ hounddog.cc -O2 -o hounddog
> ./hounddog -b0 < hounddog.inp
> 
> ...with the result of...
> 
> Code: -1 followed by 6 chars
> Code: 1 followed by 3 chars
> Code: 2 followed by 0 chars
> Code: -1 followed by 3 chars
> Code: 2 followed by 6 chars      <<<<< difference
> Code: 1 followed by 0 chars
> Code: -1 followed by 3 chars
> 
> ...instead of the expected results...
> 
> Code: -1 followed by 6 chars
> Code: 1 followed by 3 chars
> Code: 2 followed by 0 chars
> Code: -1 followed by 3 chars
> Code: 3 followed by 4 chars
> Code: 1 followed by 0 chars
> Code: -1 followed by 3 chars
> 
> Is anyone else using glibc 2.0.98 seeing this?
>                    Jack

% pwd
/export3/cvs/egcs-1.1/i586-linux/libio/testsuite

% grep FAIL libio.log
FAIL: hounddog.cc output -b0
FAIL: hounddog.cc output -b2

% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-linux/egcs-2.91.57/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.57 19980901 (egcs-1.1 release)

% ld -V
GNU ld version 2.9.1 (with BFD 2.9.1.0.15)
  Supported emulations:
   elf_i386
   i386linux
% ls -l /lib/libc.*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           14 Oct 22 22:19 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.0.98.so*

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