Large increase in testsuite failures in optimized 3.0 20010613 (prerelease)

[Andreas Jaeger]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:

> On 15 Jun 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
>> * Compilation of GLIBC with GCC 3.0
>> 
>> At this point Glibc and GCC are out of synch since the latest
>> exception handling changes for GCC.  Compiling glibc with the GCC 3.0
>> will cause lots of problems and might make your system unstable.  This
>> will definitly need fixes in glibc but might also need fixes in GCC.
>> We strongly advise to wait for glibc 2.2.4 and to read the release
>> notes of glibc 2.2.4 whether patches for GCC 3.0 are needed.
> 
> Could you add this under #*-*-linux-gnu in doc/install.texi, and update
> the part about 2.95.2 and glibc 2.2 to instead link to the appropriate
> patch (in plain text form) for 2.95.3 to use with current glibc?

I'm not sure about the link for GCC 2.95.3.  I don't have a tested
patch ready for 2.95.3.  Jakub, is your patch ok?  Where does it live?

Here's a revised version of the above paragraph.  Where should it be
installed (mainline/branch)?

Andreas

2001-06-15  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@suse.de>

	* doc/install.texi (Specific): Mention that glibc cannot be
	compiled with GCC 3.0.

============================================================
Index: gcc/doc/install.texi
--- gcc/doc/install.texi	2001/06/15 07:18:55	1.26
+++ gcc/doc/install.texi	2001/06/15 16:23:35
@@ -1871,6 +1871,23 @@
 
 @html
 </p>
+@end html
+
+@html
+<p>
+@end html
+
+Currently Glibc 2.2.3 (and older releases) and GCC 3.0 are out of sync
+since the latest exception handling changes for GCC.  Compiling glibc
+with GCC 3.0 will give a binary incompatible glibc and therefore cause
+lots of problems and might make your system completly unusable.  This
+will definitly need fixes in glibc but might also need fixes in GCC.  We
+strongly advise to wait for glibc 2.2.4 and to read the release notes of
+glibc 2.2.4 whether patches for GCC 3.0 are needed.  You can use glibc
+2.2.3 with GCC 3.0, just do not try to recompile it.
+
+@html
+</p>
 <hr>
 @end html
 @heading @anchor{ix86-*-linux*oldld}i?86-*-linux*oldld

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