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Re: gcc-2.95.3 April 12 incomplete C++ thunks patch breaks Linux/ia32
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.3 April 12 incomplete C++ thunks patch breaks Linux/ia32
- From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 10:08:24 -0700
- Cc: Jeffrey Law <law at cygnus dot com>,Martin von Lowis <loewis at informatik dot hu-berlin dot de>,gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- References: <200005181655.MAA24902@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com>
On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:55:45PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> According to H.J. Lu, the thunks patches applied to the gcc-2.95
> release branch on April 12 breaks glibc on Linux/ia32. Something about
> the backporting of the patch from the development tree was incomplete.
>
I don't think it is a backport. Martin provided an original patch for
2.95 branch. The one in the release branch is incomplete. This patch
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-04/msg00720.html
fixes it. You can find the bug reports in the gcc mailing list
archives. You can follow
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-04/msg00396.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-05/msg00596.html
I am very disappointed at what happened. I don't know why Jeff is
allowed to do this to Linux.
H.J.