Re: GCC 4.0.2 Released

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Eric Botcazou wrote:

> Agreed.  But I'm requesting a "caveat" note about the Solaris regression here:
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.0/changes.html#4.0.2
> mentioning the workaround (g++ -pthreads) and the link:
>   http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2005-09/msg00984.html

Done.

Thanks,

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  of problem reports (PRs)</a> from GCC's bug tracking system that are
  known to be fixed in the 4.0.2 release. This list might not be
  complete (that is, it is possible that some PRs that have been fixed
  are not listed here).</p>
  
+ <p>Unfortunately, due to a release engineering failure, this release
+ has a regression on Solaris that will affect some C++ programs.  We
+ suggest that Solaris users apply a <a
+ href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-cvs/2005-09/msg00984.html";>patch</a>
+ that corrects the problem.  Users who do not wish to apply the patch
+ should explicitly link C++ programs with the <code>-pthreads</code>
+ option, even if they do not use threads.  This problem has been
+ corrected in the current 4.0 branch sources and will not be present in
+ GCC 4.0.3.</p>
+ 
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