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Re: [Patch] Fix glibc testing with GCC 4.9 compiler
- From: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- To: "Steve Ellcey " <sellcey at imgtec dot com>
- Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:49:24 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Patch] Fix glibc testing with GCC 4.9 compiler
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* Steve Ellcey:
> I was testing glibc on a machine with GCC 4.9.2 and the tests died due
> to a warning in string/tester.c. This routine has a DIAG_IGNORE for
> -Wmemset-transposed-args at GCC 5.0 and above but this warning is also
> given by my GCC 4.9.2 compiler. This patch fixed the problem for me,
> is it OK to check it in?
I think this breaks the build for everyone with a 4.9 compiler which
does not support -Wmemset-transposed-args. Wasn't this a
Debian-specific backport?