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Re: gets with C++ and GCC before 4.7
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Joseph S. Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> This patch has resulted in some interesting discussion of other approaches
> for the long-term fix for newer libstdc++ versions and of general
> principles, and it's certainly useful to consider such things. ?But, none
> of that really touches on the matter of fixing the header to work now,
> with the 4.6 and earlier compilers that exist now. ?And that's what my
> patch is meant to do: restore things to a working state with existing
> compilers. ?As I see it, improvements for future compilers can be done
> later at leisure, incrementally building on a fix such as mine, but in any
> case we need to fix the case of using new stdio.h with GCC 4.6, *and keep
> it fixed in the course of any subsequent changes in this area*. ?Does
> anyone have anything to say about my patch as a fix for that particular
> case?
I'm in favour of the default policy of working hard to ensure the
components of GNU/Linux work together well.
In my opinion there is always going to be some coordination issues
as the implementation is adjusted and ignoring this issues only
results in frustratingly broken combinations.
To that end I'm in favour of a patch that enables the use of glibc
with the interm GCC.
Cheers,
Carlos.