cygwin 1.5.18 breaks gcc 2.95 compatibility
Gerrit P. Haase
gerrit@familiehaase.de
Sat Jul 16 18:14:00 GMT 2005
Krzysztof Duleba wrote:
> After upgrading my Cygwin to 1.5.18, gcc 2.95 doesn't work anymore.
>
> The same problem occures with the 20050709 snapshot. Reverting cygwin back
> to 1.5.17 makes gcc work again.
>
> I know that gcc 2.95 is unsupported and was removed from the distribution
> due to a severe bug, but could you please try to fix this issue?
>
> I use the old cygwin gcc 2.95 package. If you don't have it, you can find
> it on http://www.duleba.net/gcc-2.95.tar.bz2 (please mind my slow ADSL
> upload speed).
>
>
> The following results are from 20050709 snapshot:
>
> $ cat foo.c
> int main(){
> }
>
> $ gcc-2 --version
> 2.95.3-10
>
> $ gcc-2 foo.c
> gcc-2: Internal compiler error: program cpp0 got fatal signal 11
[...]
Your example compiles ok with gcc-3.4.4, so why want you use gcc-2.x?
Maybe you can recompile gcc-2.95 if you really must use it?
However, gcc-2.95.3 was released 2001 which is about four years ago,
it is time to move on!
Gerrit
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