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Re: AIX, Solaris 2.8 excess errors fails
- From: Jason Merrill <jason at redhat dot com>
- To: David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>, libstdc++ at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:23:41 +0000
- Subject: Re: AIX, Solaris 2.8 excess errors fails
- References: <200202201605.LAA26550@makai.watson.ibm.com>
>>>>> "David" == David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> The patch fixes some of the failures, but I am not sure that I
> agree with explicitly instantiating the static fields in the testcases
> because that is not what most user programs do, so it just covers up the
> problem. I would prefer that you revert that part of the patch.
I disagree; this is a known limitation, not a failure. These are tests for
library functionality, so workarounds are fine.
It is what user programs need to do if they want to work on AIX...
Jason