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[doc] Patchlet for libstdc++/27878
- From: Paolo Carlini <pcarlini at suse dot de>
- To: "'gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org'" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:59:56 +0200
- Subject: [doc] Patchlet for libstdc++/27878
Hi,
I'm going to commit this small patch, documenting the limitation
described in libstdc++/27878. Richard Sandiford is ok with mentioning
the workaround and closing the PR.
Paolo.
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2006-07-12 Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de>
PR libstdc++/27878
* doc/install.texi (mips-sgi-irix6): Add note about IRIX 6.5.x,
x < 19, vs wchar_t support.
Index: doc/install.texi
===================================================================
--- doc/install.texi (revision 115368)
+++ doc/install.texi (working copy)
@@ -3565,6 +3565,11 @@
its maximum of 262144 bytes. If you have root access, you can use the
@command{systune} command to do this.
+@code{wchar_t} support in @samp{libstdc++} is not available for old
+IRIX 6.5.x releases, @math{x < 19}. The problem cannot be autodetected
+and in order to build GCC for such targets you need to configure with
+@option{--disable-wchar_t}.
+
See @uref{http://freeware.sgi.com/} for more
information about using GCC on IRIX platforms.