Regression tester v. runtime libraries

[Hans-Peter Nilsson]

On 30 Nov 2001, Geoff Keating wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > Does the automated regression tester check for regressions in the
> > libstdc++-v3 and libjava testsuites?
>
> In theory yes.
>
> However,
>
> - libstdc++-v3 got switched off because of a bug in linking C++
>   objects compiled with different optimisation levels that would cause
>   FAILs to appear and disappear at random; and

Is that the gcc <-> binutils mismatch with relocs against
symbols in discarded linkonce sections that we discussed on the
binutils list some time ago?  (That description certainly
matches what I saw then.)

brgds, H-P