libio patches for glibc 2.1

H.J. Lu hjl@lucon.org
Mon Feb 23 13:07:00 GMT 1998


> 
> hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:
> 
> > I, as a glibc 2.1 developer, don't want to use egcs snapshot, which
> > is known (intentional) to break from time to time, for glibc 2.1. I
> > want a stable compiler which is compatible with glibc 2.1. I don't 
> > want another factor in my glibc 2.1 work.
> 
> I do understand this, of course.  The problem is only that by putting
> in more and more changes into egcs 1.0 it might not stabilize and
> especially with volatile code like the egcs/glibc 2.1 interface this
> might require even more changes once egcs 1.0.2 is out.  You should
> case about Jeff who really likes to devote his time on egcs 1.1
> instead of another 1.0 release.
> 

The changes for glibc 2.1 to egcs will be pretty much limited to
libstdc++/libio. They should not change the gcc directory itself
and they probably won't affect any other systems. They should be
quite safe.


> If Jeff has no objections about adding the code to egcs 1.0, go ahead.
> The code itself is correct, my only fear is that it might not be the
> last required change.
> 

I'd like to see a stable compiler for glibc 2.1.

-- 
H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)



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