Re: Removal of V2 code

[Franz Sirl <Franz dot Sirl-kernel at lauterbach dot com>]

At 02:10 20.11.00, Geoff Keating wrote:
>Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> writes:
>
> > I plan on doing a `cvs remove' on the V2 sources, and removing the
> > configury bits for V2 at the end of next week as things seem to be
> > settling OK with V3.  (There are still some AIX issues with V3, but
> > they seem to be well on the path to resolution.)
> >
> > If you have objections to this plan (i.e., you need the V2 sources to
> > continue your work), you should:
> >
> >   - Try hard to get V3 working on your platform.
> >
> >   - Complain to me.  Explain why you can't switch to V3, and what
> >     you need in order to make that happen.
> >
> > We can keep V2 in the tree for a bit longer, if we need to, but you'll
> > have to come up with a good reason... :-)
>
>The embedded platforms (*-elf, powerpc-eabi*, *-coff) don't work yet with 
>V3; I
>don't believe anyone, certainly not at Red Hat, will be able to fix
>this until next month; we don't have time.

Well, not only the embedded stuff is non-functional, powerpc-linux-gnu is 
unusable with libstdc++-v3 too (see my posted testsuite results). I 
couldn't do too much debugging yet, but it seems most (if not all) of the 
testcases crash during constructor handling in glibc's malloc/free code.

Franz.