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Re: glibc 2.0.112
>>>>> Richard Henderson writes:
Richard> On Sat, Jan 30, 1999 at 08:04:31AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>> > It is not a bug in glibc.
>>
>> The same is true for Alpha. Though I think rth said he fixed the
>> problems recently.
Richard> Yes, the Alpha problems with single precision complex are
Richard> a compiler problem. The solution I had appears to be only
Richard> and still crashes the compiler on occasion.
Summing up the issues, is the appended patch for the FAQ correct?
Ulrich, please add this to glibc 2.1 if nobody objects.
Andreas
--- FAQ.in.~4~ Fri Jan 29 18:13:40 1999
+++ FAQ.in Sun Jan 31 17:38:17 1999
@@ -303,13 +303,16 @@
test in the sources.
There are some failures which are not directly related to the GNU libc:
-- Some compiler produce buggy code. The egcs 1.1 release should be ok. gcc
- 2.8.1 might cause some failures, gcc 2.7.2.x is so buggy, that explicit
- checks have been used so that you can't build with it.
+- Some compiler produce buggy code. The egcs 1.1 release should be ok
+ (besides some singe precision complex problems on Alpha). gcc 2.8.1 might
+ cause some failures, gcc 2.7.2.x is so buggy, that explicit checks have
+ been used so that you can't build with it.
- The kernel might have bugs. For example on Linux/Alpha 2.0.34 the
floating point handling has quite a number of bugs and therefore most of
- the test cases in the math subdirectory will fail. Linux 2.2 has
- fixes for the floating point support on Alpha.
+ the test cases in the math subdirectory will fail. Linux 2.2 has fixes
+ for the floating point support on Alpha. The Linux/Sparc kernel has also
+ some bugs in the fpu emulation code (as of Linux 2.2.0).
+
?? What is symbol versioning good for? Do I need it?
--
Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de jaeger@informatik.uni-kl.de
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