powerpc libc 2.2

Geoff Keating geoffk@cygnus.com
Mon Jun 26 11:50:00 GMT 2000


> Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.cygnus.com
> Reply-To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> Date: 26 Jun 2000 11:41:05 -0700
> 
> Geoff Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
> > For 2.2, glibc on powerpc will require a gcc newer than 2.95.* to
> 
> You mean it needs the mainline sourceware compiler?

Yes.  There's a bug in 2.95 involving asm and memory clobbers, another
one involving complex results.  (As I mentioned before, there's the
whole exception-handling issue too.)

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@cygnus.com>


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