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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 18:12:41 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Patch] Fix glibc testing with GCC 4.9 compiler
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* Steve Ellcey:
> On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 17:49 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * 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?
>
> That is possible, I wasn't aware this was a backport.
I looked agained, and yes, it's a backport.
I think this would need a configure check for detection because you
can't infer it from the reported compiler version.