gcc bug impacts glibc cvs

[Franz Sirl]

At 17:59 12.03.2001, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Jack Howarth <howarth@bromo.med.uc.edu> writes:
>
> > ps I did try Franz's suggested patch from...
> > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2001-03/msg00020.html
> > ...and glibc cvs complies fine and passes all of make check
> > with that suggested hack.
>
>This is a hack.  rth acknowledged that this is a gcc bug.  I'm of
>course of the opinion that it is a must-fix.  A hack like Franz' can
>only go in together with a test for this bug.

Well, currently this test is quite simple, every GCC does it potentially 
wrong so far. Maybe a fix can go into gcc-3.0, but most probably it won't 
be in gcc-2.95.3.

Franz.