gcc 2.95.4 MT related crashes in basic_string class

[Phil Edwards]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 12:58:25PM -0600, Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> Dudes,
> 
> If I had a dime for every time this question was asked, even though it's
> on the FAQ, or for every time some person tried to get 2.90.8 up on
> gcc-2.x and failed, or for every time some huge MT app in some
> impossible-to-reproduce, crazy hardware situation telecom/financial
> testing lab failed due to v2 MT string issues but passed with v3......

No kidding.


> ... there would be free empanadas and bordeaux for everybody.

"there would be free- what the..."

    http://www.foodreference.com/html/fempanadas.html

Oh.  Sweet.  I should try making those.


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I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How
not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met.
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