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Re: Able patch gcc2.5.8 for memcpy()+mips3 defect?


On Feb 18, 2002, Stephen Roderick <stephen_roderick@ssl.umd.edu> wrote:

> Is it possible to obtain patches to old releases instead of upgrading?

Sure.  cvsweb is your friend.  You can do a binary search in the CVS
tree to locate the patch that fixed the bug, then back-port it to the
old release.

> We've found a bug in gcc2.5.8 using the SDE-MIPS tool chain which causes

But I'm afraid the CVS history in gcc.gnu.org goes as far back as GCC
2.5.8, so you may be out of luck :-(

Well, you can always try more recent releases of GCC and see which one
had the bug fixed, then try to figure out what the patch was from the
diffs.  But the granularity isn't as fine.

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