Will the consistent failures in EGCS be fixed soon?

[Martin von Loewis]

[ suddenly many new failures in eb*, indicating some deeply broken compiler ]
> Is that not true?  

Yes, not true.

> Or perhaps all the failures are just new tests?  

Perhaps :-) If you've been watching closely, or if you had compared
the two subsequent snapshots where the error first appeared, or if you
had used 'cvs log', you'd know that the g++.robertl/eb* test cases are
indeed new to the testsuite, introduced at the same time by going over
the reports of egcs-bugs and selecting 'good' bug reports.

> Does anyone know if these failures will be fixed soon?  

I suggest that you look closely at the individual failures and decide
for yourself what kind of problem they constitute. Please use the
gcc.log and g++.log files produced to see the exact messages produced
when running the testsuite.

For example, bugs in the C++ front end most likely do not harm
compilation of the Linux kernel or glibc.

Regards,
Martin