mysterious wordexp failure

[Zack Weinberg]

On 02 Apr 1999 09:32:27 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu> writes:
>
>> where $var has previously been set to "abc".  Wordc 1 seems like the
>> right answer to me, but neither the test nor the code has been changed
>> since last October.  What gives?
>
>I run the tests several times a day and haven't seen a problem.  Did
>you changed your compiler?

It's the current egcs CVS tree.  Should I try with 1.1.2?

zw