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Re: Large increase in testsuite failures in optimized 3.0 20010613 (prerelease)
- To: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: Large increase in testsuite failures in optimized 3.0 20010613 (prerelease)
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 01:29:41 -0400
- Cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>, ronis at onsager dot chem dot mcgill dot ca, gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org, Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106142128360.2489-100000@kern.srcf.societies.cam.ac.uk> <u8wv6e49hf.fsf@gromit.moeb>
- Reply-To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:07:08AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> I'm not sure what's the best place is to add this. Jakub, is the
> following correct, you know the issues better than I do? Joseph, can
> you add it at an appropriate place, please?
>
> * Compilation of GLIBC with GCC 3.0
>
> At this point Glibc and GCC are out of synch since the latest
> exception handling changes for GCC. Compiling glibc with the GCC 3.0
> will cause lots of problems and might make your system unstable. This
> will definitly need fixes in glibc but might also need fixes in GCC.
> We strongly advise to wait for glibc 2.2.4 and to read the release
> notes of glibc 2.2.4 whether patches for GCC 3.0 are needed.
It is probably ok. I'd perhaps stress out that the resulting glibc will be
binary incompatible with older glibcs, but can be counted into lots of
problems.
Jakub