Release 2.21 - Soon...

[Steve Ellcey]

FYI: I am currently looking at a gas problem on IA64 HP-UX.  I noticed
that I am getting C++ failures in my GCC build/test runs and it looks
like it is due to one of the changes made to the gnu assembler by
Richard Sandiford or Maciej W. Rozycki on December 1 or 2.  I haven't
really got a good handle on the problem yet, but when running the C++
tests using the latest assembler I get a lot of messages like:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
  what():  std::bad_alloc
FAIL: 20_util/allocator/8230.cc execution test

The failures always involve 'terminate called after throwing....' and
go away if I use an older assembler.

I would like to understand what is happening and fix it before 2.21
is released.

Steve Ellcey
sje@cup.hp.com