Re: continuing egcs-1.1 problems

[bacon at aerodyne dot com]

On  2 Nov, David Edelsohn wrote:
>>>>>> Franz Sirl writes:
> 
> Franz> I think you should really talk to Gary Thomas <gdt@opengroup.org> about
> Franz> that. I'm on glibc-2.1 snapshots since begin of the year and no longer
> Franz> involved in the glibc-0.961212 stuff. I checked ftp.linuxppc.org and found
> Franz> a newer SRPM (from Gary?) in the contrib dir which no longer contains the
> Franz> trampoline patch, so eventually he has made a decision on this already.
> 
> 	We need to resolve this for egcs-1.1.1.  I don't know what Gary
> and linuxppc has determined about the problem, but the MkLinux camp has an
> old patch from Gary which is not in egcs-1.1 and they are blaming EGCS for
> the bug.  I thought this was a glibc bug.  We need to get a correct
> determination of the problem and reflect the correct information back to
> MkLinux as well as listing it on the EGCS FAQ.
> 

No one is blaming anyone or anything.  We're simply trying to find the
solution to a reproducible problem.  The real issue may be in egcs or
in the version of glibc which we are using or somewhere else for that
matter.  Until an answer is found, everything is suspect.  The fact
that Gary's old patch prevents the core dump is just a data point in the
search for a solution.  It isn't an accusation.

We're trying to contact Gary to see if he can help clarify the
situation.

-- 
Fred Bacon

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