egcs-1.0.2: string<unsigned char> failure

[Munagala V. S. Ramanath]

> With egcs-2.91.25 19980425 under SunOS 5.51 your code compiles, links
> and runs quite well.
> 
> 
> You might want to consider having a look at some current snapshot! It
> seems that a large number of your bug reports do not apply to these
> any more. 

    Stability is important for what I'm doing and I'm not sure how
    stable the snapshots are, so I've been staying with releases. Also,
    on my Sparc 2 a distribution takes 6.5 hours to build and about
    100MB of disk space; therefore, there is a limit to how many copies
    I can keep around or how often I can pick up and build snapshots
    and still get useful work done.

    These kinds of bug reports against earlier versions are inevitable
    with any software; there is just no way to avoid them. It would
    appear that developers will generally have a pretty good idea when
    a bug report is irrelevant for current code because the bug has been
    fixed and can therefore ignore such reports with minimal
    inconvenience.

    If the egcs group would prefer _not_ to receive bug reports against
    any earlier version once a snapshot has been released, I'd suggest
    adding a note to this effect on the egcs web page and I will be
    glad to comply.

> On the other hand, I'd take this as a strong indication that egcs 1.1
> is really (over)due...

    I heartily agree.

    Ram

> Gerald
> -- 
> Gerald Pfeifer (Jerry)      Vienna University of Technology
> pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at   http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/