egcs-1.1b compiles invalid TeX

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 199812021721.SAA14346@k332.feld.cvut.cz >you write:
  > Hallo egcs developers,
  > 
  > I have found an error in egcs-1.1b compiled web2c TeX.
  > 
  > My system is i686-pc-linux-gnu & linux-2.1 & glibc-2.1.
  > 
  > I have tried to compile the same source with gcc-2.8.1 and it gives good
  > code.
  > 
  > TeX is very complitated program, so my knowledges are too small to
  > catch the bug. The bug seems to be repeatable, so if anybody wants to
  > try to catch it, I am adding all make stuff.
  > (web2c will need make-3.76.1, which needs small patch to be compiled with g
  > libc-2.1.)
You might try the egcs-1.1.1 pre-releases.  We've fixed a couple of bugs that
have shown up in TeX code.  The pre-releases are in the pub/egcs/snapshots
directory on the egcs ftp server.


jeff