2.95.3 status

[Geert Bosch]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:48:53 -0800 (PST), Joe Buck wrote:

  I don't think that we can drop HP with the native assembler, and I do
  think that the comparison failures are false due to timestamps.  It
  doesn't feel right to say 2.95.3 won't work on a platform where 2.95.2
  worked.

I found with other versions of GCC that the differences were due
to some random/uninitialized data (not a time-stamp IMO) that was 
included in one of the assembler-generated sections (unwind info, 
or something similar).

The text and data segments were identical. A possible solution would be
to use objcopy or a similar tool to remove the offending sections before
comparing. Actually, you'd only have to do this with the final linked
executable.

  -Geert