Re: Results for egcs-2.92.11 19980921 (gcc2 ss-980609 experimental)

[hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)]

> 
> >There seems to be a lot of errors in this snapshot.  I compiled with
> >egcs-1.1b.
> 
> On my Alpha (RH 5.0 Linux), this snapshot didn't even bother building
> some libraries, such as libf2c.  I haven't had time to investigate
> why, yet.  And, there were comparison failures in the bootstrap
> build as well, in about 7 source files (one in g77).  The previous
> snapshot was fine in these respects.
> 
> I suspect the snapshot includes a misapplied patch or two that
> makes it DOA, or nearly so...but if nobody speaks up with
> an "aha!", I'll try and look into it later this week.  (By "misapplied"
> I include partially applied patches as well.)
> 

I can confirm that the current egcs miscompiles libg++ on Linux/x86.
I also saw report that it miscompiled glibc 2.1 on Linux/x86. They
may be related. It will be nice if people run test on libg++ before
they check in changes. I have suggested it many times before. It went
nowhere. The result is everyone wastes time on those bugs which can be
caught by libg++. Should that be a check-in requirement?


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H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)