2.95.3 and Debian patches to 2.95.2
Joe Buck
jbuck@racerx.synopsys.com
Fri Dec 29 22:39:00 GMT 2000
What Debian calls 2.95.2 actually has a number of patches, some from
the 2.95.2 CVS branch, some from elsewhere but generally from well-known
gcc developers. Since these patches are well-tested (used to build
thousands of packages on half-a-dozen architectures) is seems that the
list should be checked for possible inclusion into 2.95.3 or (if not
present) the main tree.
The Debian patches can be found at
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source/devel/gcc_2.95.2-13.1.diff.gz
(This isn't a traditional diff, it creates a bunch of files which are,
in turn, patches, and not all of these patches actually get applied).
There are several small libstdc++-v2 patches that seem fine and without
risk (get rid of warnings, throw exception instead of abort on out
of memory if STL malloc_alloc is used).
Some patches are Debian specific and some documentation patches, e.g.
gcc-manpage.dpatch, are botches (really bad English).
There are patches that are only applied for particular build platforms,
which is Not The Way We Do Things. I don't know what to say about these.
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