egcs-971105: results on i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1

Robert Wilhelm robert@physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de
Thu Nov 6 08:26:00 GMT 1997


On Thu, Nov 06, 1997 at 07:54:16AM -0800, Joe Buck wrote:
> Because the bug is exactly what the test is testing for: ANSI C
> says that only the names in the standard can be reserved.  Changing
> the test as you suggest would be pointless.  This is a real failure
> to conform to ANSI C if the test fails.
> 
> [ patch to change glob to global ]
>

Then maybe this test could be moved to the binutils or glibc testsuite?

Although this bug could be fixed in theory by changing gcc,
it propably never will because glibc developers fixed it in glibc 2.x.

It is a little bit annoying to get these failures at every make check...

Robert




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