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Re: Regression tester v. runtime libraries
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- To: hp at bitrange dot com
- Cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 13:13:30 -0800
- Subject: Re: Regression tester v. runtime libraries
- References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0112011235470.53574-100000@dair.pair.com>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:02:58 -0500 (EST)
> From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
> cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
>
> 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.)
Yes, it's the bug where EH information ends up in the executable for
linkonce functions that were deleted.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>