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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy
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On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Friday November 24, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl 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".

	[image from FTP site not buggy]

> > 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.

The gcc-2.95.2-6cl from Conectiva 6.0 is buggy too.

(and the ISO images haven't even been available for
one week yet ... *sigh*)

regards,

Rik
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