Lack of libstdc++ compatibility

Paolo Carlini paolo.carlini@oracle.com
Thu Aug 18 10:19:00 GMT 2011


On 08/18/2011 11:42 AM, Richard Guenther wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Gerald Pfeifer<gerald@pfeifer.com>  wrote:
>> On Tue, 2 Aug 2011, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>>> Revisions 176335 removed the traditional "#include<unistd.h>" from
>>>> gthr-posix.h. This breaks the build of many programs (Firefox, Chromium,
>>>> etc.) that implicitly rely on it.
>>> This isn't the first time the libstdc++ headers were cleaned up, and
>>> each time there are dozens of programs that need to be fixed up. Each
>>> time they just were fixed.
>> I think that is a bit too much of a cavalier approach.
> Because you ignore the fact that this change fixed a bug.
Indeed and actually a rather serious one, already reported multiple 
times. When thanks to Jon's idea and Jukub refinements we have been able 
to fix it I was very happy!

Paolo.



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