gcc-2.95.3 April 12 incomplete C++ thunks patch breaks Linux/ia32

[H . J . Lu]

On Thu, May 18, 2000 at 12:55:45PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 	According to H.J. Lu, the thunks patches applied to the gcc-2.95
> release branch on April 12 breaks glibc on Linux/ia32.  Something about
> the backporting of the patch from the development tree was incomplete.
> 

I don't think it is a backport. Martin provided an original patch for
2.95 branch. The one in the release branch is incomplete. This patch

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2000-04/msg00720.html

fixes it. You can find the bug reports in the gcc mailing list
archives. You can follow

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-04/msg00396.html
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-05/msg00596.html

I am very disappointed at what happened. I don't know why Jeff is
allowed to do this to Linux.


H.J.