From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson) Subject: Re: Why change to 2.2.2? (Was Re: Problems with linux0.96bpl2) Date: 1 Jul 1992 20:51:07 GMT
In article <1992Jun30.223309.29008@advtech.uswest.com> mcain@copper (Michael Cain) writes:
>
>Since upgrading to 2.2.2 will be expensive for me (at least in
>terms of the time needed to rebuild a bunch of stuff), can you
>give us a brief description of what problems those of us who stick
>with 2.11 (MCC-interim release) will have? Does it generate wrong
>code? Fail to recognize legal constructs? Really horrendous errors
>in the libraries? I've built several things using 2.11 (vile, xlisp,
>ghostscript, 0.96bpl2) and none of them seem to have any problems.
>
>Appreciate it,
>Mike Cain
>mcain@advtech.uswest.com
I haven't tried to isolate the problem, but I've noticed that quite a few
gcc2.11c-compiled programs are doing core dumps. I suspect a difference
between the library functions and the actual system calls. One common
problem I've encountered is free(), at least that's what gdb indicates.
I've given up on 2.11c and plan to download 2.2.2 this week.
-- Jim H. * * James L. Henrickson ujlh@sunyit.edu * "Yet another Jim in the Linux world." :-)