Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

[Neil Brown]

On Friday November 24, [e-mail] wrote:
> >> ... RedHat's GCC snapshot "2.96" handles this case just fine.
> 
> > Now, if you can isolate the relevant part of the diff between
> > 2.95.2 and RH 2.96...
> 
> Maybe I have to be more precise in the statement "gcc 2.95.2 is buggy".
> 
> I just installed gcc 2.95.2 freshly ftp'ed from ftp.gnu.org, and
> 
...
> 
> So, not all versions of gcc 2.95.2 are equal.
> 
> % rpm -qf /usr/bin/gcc
> gcc-2.95.2-51
> 
> This is from a SuSE distribution, I forget which, not very recent.
> Revised summary: gcc-2.95.2-51 from SuSE is buggy.

Ditto for gcc-2.95.2-13 from Debian (potato). It exhibits the same
bug.
Debian applies a total of 49 patches to gcc and the libraries.

I am tempted to write a little script which discards the patches one
by one and re-builds and re-tests each time, and leave it going all
night.... but I'm not sure if I actually will.

NeilBrown

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