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Re: Experience building binutils-2.9.5 (CVS) under VAX Ultrix 4.3
- To: dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca
- Subject: Re: Experience building binutils-2.9.5 (CVS) under VAX Ultrix 4.3
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Date: 30 Mar 2000 18:22:56 -0800
- CC: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <200003302244.RAA13937@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:44:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
2) There are a couple of check problems with ld:
Running /usr/local/src/gnu/binutils-2.9.5/ld/testsuite/ld-cdtest/cdtest.exp ...
FAIL: cdtest
FAIL: cdtest with -Ur
...
--- cdtest.dat Mon May 3 03:29:08 1999
+++ ../../tmpdir/cdtest.out Wed Mar 29 15:38:22 2000
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
Constructing Foo(4) "default-foo"
Initializing Foo(5) "default-foo" with Foo(4)
Destructing Foo(4) "default-foo" (remaining foos: 4)
+Initializing Foo(5) "default-foo" with Foo(5)
+Destructing Foo(5) "default-foo" (remaining foos: 4)
Constructing Foo(5) "other_foo1"
Constructing Foo(6) "other_foo2"
Copying Foo(5) "other_foo1" to Foo(6)
This appears to be a result of using gcc-2.8.1 to build the package.
That's kind of weird, actually. That would seem to be a bug
somewhere. I can't remember seeing this before. It might indicate a
real problem in the compiler or the linker. The compiler is quite
old, of course, but it might still be worth investigating.
Ian