A libio compatibility patch

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Tue Aug 29 11:17:00 GMT 2000


On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 11:10:16AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:
> 
> > If you run "make check" in gcc from CVS on sourceware configured for
> > libstdc++, not libstdc++-v3, under glibc 2.2, you will get many C++
> > failures. That is because the libio header files in libstdc++ are still
> > the old ones. But the libio compatibility code in glibc 2.2 has some
> > bugs. This patch seems to work for me. But I am not sure if it is
> > 100% correct.
> 
> The question here is how can the mode not be set correctly when
> reaching these places.  This is what has to be fixed.  Which of the
> tests is failing?  I cannot run the entire test suite myself since I

Almost all tests in libio/tests in gcc are failed. Even a simple
program like:

#include <iostream>
main ()
{
  cout << "hello world\n";
}

doesn't work with libstdc++ and glibc 2.2.


H.J.




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