An important patch for egcs 1.0.1

[Michael Neuffer]

On Sun, 15 Feb 1998, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> >>>>> "H" == H J Lu <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
>     H> egcs 1.0.1 miscompiles glibc, especially long double.
> 
> It's not obvious to me that just because 1.0.1 miscompiles glibc 2.x
> the long double fix can't wait for 1.1.  If programs that use glibc
> are miscompiled, that's much worse (although even then, if only
> programs that use long double are affected, I'm not sure).  However,
> most users do not compile glibc themselves; on the systems you
> mentioned earlier (RedHat 5.0, Debian, SUSE) glibc comes as a
> precompiled package.  I myself use RH5.0 and have never built glibc.

I'd consider it a major problem if I could not compile glibc anymore.

It is almost as bad as not beeing able to compile the Linux kernel and
would prompt me to switch back to gcc 2.8 as fast as I can download and
compile it on my different machines.

Mike