Regression tester v. runtime libraries

[Geoff Keating]

> Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:02:58 -0500 (EST)
> From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
> cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>, <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
> 
> 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.)

Yes, it's the bug where EH information ends up in the executable for
linkonce functions that were deleted.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>