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Re: Regression tester v. runtime libraries
- From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp at bitrange dot com>
- To: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:02:58 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Regression tester v. runtime libraries
On 30 Nov 2001, Geoff Keating wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > Does the automated regression tester check for regressions in the
> > libstdc++-v3 and libjava testsuites?
>
> In theory yes.
>
> However,
>
> - libstdc++-v3 got switched off because of a bug in linking C++
> objects compiled with different optimisation levels that would cause
> FAILs to appear and disappear at random; and
Is that the gcc <-> binutils mismatch with relocs against
symbols in discarded linkonce sections that we discussed on the
binutils list some time ago? (That description certainly
matches what I saw then.)
brgds, H-P