Trick or treat?

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Mon Nov 1 06:04:00 GMT 2004


Andrew Pinski wrote:
> 
> On Nov 1, 2004, at 12:10 AM, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> 
>> The first GCC 3.4.3 release candidate is available here:
>>
>>   ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/prerelease-3.4.3-20041031/
>>
>> I'm unlikely to hold up the 3.4.3 release for anything less than a 
>> serious regression from 3.4.2; the primary goal is simply to release 
>> the bug fixes that have been accumulated since 3.4.2.
>>
>> If you find problems, please file them in Bugzilla and add me to the 
>> CC: list; please do *not* send reports directly to me without entering 
>> them in Bugzilla.
> 
> 
> There is one big bug which is already filed and is a regression from
> 3.4.2.  IA64-linux does not compile if you don't have libunwind
> installed already.

There have been a huge number of patches, of a rather fragile nature, 
relating to libgcc and libunwind and symbol versioning and such.  Far 
too much complexity.

I don't know enough about IA64 GNU/Linux to know if we need to care 
about systems without libunwind installed or not.

-- 
Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery, LLC
mark@codesourcery.com



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