[Patch] Fix glibc testing with GCC 4.9 compiler
Steve Ellcey
sellcey@imgtec.com
Thu Feb 25 17:12:00 GMT 2016
On Thu, 2016-02-25 at 17:49 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Steve Ellcey:
>
> > I was testing glibc on a machine with GCC 4.9.2 and the tests died due
> > to a warning in string/tester.c. This routine has a DIAG_IGNORE for
> > -Wmemset-transposed-args at GCC 5.0 and above but this warning is also
> > given by my GCC 4.9.2 compiler. This patch fixed the problem for me,
> > is it OK to check it in?
>
> I think this breaks the build for everyone with a 4.9 compiler which
> does not support -Wmemset-transposed-args. Wasn't this a
> Debian-specific backport?
That is possible, I wasn't aware this was a backport. The compiler I
was using is on debian:
% gcc --version
gcc (Debian 4.9.2-10) 4.9.2
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Steve Ellcey
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