Release 2.21 - Soon...

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, Steve Ellcey wrote:

> 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.

 My December changes are not intended to go into 2.21 and are not on the 
2.21 branch -- are you seeing the problem with the release branch too?

  Maciej