GCC 2.95.2 and GLIBC 2.1.93, broken streambuf.h

[Ben Collins]

On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:37:06AM -0400, Rod Stewart wrote:
> 
> On 2 Sep 2000, SL Baur wrote:
> 
> > > ... what was applied to mainline CVS gcc last year.
> > 
> > What is "mainline" gcc?  The current gcc-2.95.3 prerelease CVS tree
> > (as of early this morning, Japan time) still has this problem.  I've
> > been using the gcc-2.96 weekly snapshots to do my building and the C
> > part of it seems fairly stable, but C++ and Objective C have a ways to
> > go yet.
> 
> The mainline CVS is the head (weekly snapshots) of the CVS tree.  The last
> official release of GCC was 2.95.2 (I believe), check
> http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html .  But there have been a number of
> improvements/bug fixexs in the mainline, which is where you will find the
> fix you want.  True some of the other languages have a way to go yet.

IMO, this needs to be backported (or atleast use the patch Jakub pointed
out). Not everyone has the option of using snapshot releases just to make
use of glibc 2.2. Glibc 2.2 is much closer to release than gcc mainline
is, and should be usable with released versions of gcc.

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