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Re: [PATCH] Increase expect match buffer size
- From: Richard Biener <rguenther at suse dot de>
- To: Bernd Edlinger <bernd dot edlinger at hotmail dot de>
- Cc: "gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 16:36:24 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Increase expect match buffer size
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On Mon, 17 Jul 2017, Bernd Edlinger wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> this is to mitigate a race condition in expect 5.45-7
> (which will be fixed in 5.45-8) see this thread for details:
>
> https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2017-07/msg00081.html
>
> By increasing the match buffer size from 2000 to 10000
> bytes we can avoid the fall-out due to the bug in expect,
> while we have to wait for the next stable debian version.
>
>
> Bootstrapped and reg-tested on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.
> Is it OK for trunk?
Ok.
Richard.