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Re: my EGCS status
- To: rth at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: my EGCS status
- From: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Date: Wed, 8 Oct 1997 15:17:03 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: egcs at cygnus dot com
>
> On Wed, Oct 08, 1997 at 02:15:48PM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > For Linux or any systems which use libio in their C library
> > implemenations, the prolem with egcs comes from libstdc++ which
> > is also based on libio. I don't see you can upgrade one libio
> > while keeping the other. You will run into more problems.
>
> Then we don't build libio, and use the installed one and make
> libstdc++ be built the "right way".
>
There are some internal ABI changes in libio which fix some
iostream bugs. That is one reason why a new libc is needed.
There are also a few changes for some real bugs.
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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.ai.mit.edu)