Re: Results for egcs-2.93.18 19990418 (gcc2 ss-980929 exp

Re: Results for egcs-2.93.18 19990418 (gcc2 ss-980929 exp

[Theodore Papadopoulo]

[egcs-bugs: egcs-2.93.18 19990418 fails to compile because of a bug 
            in invoke.texi
> >Is it really this bad?  I haven't got that far, but I do apparently get wild 
> >over-writing of memory with g77-19990418, resulting in program hangs (linux) 
> >or total OS hangs (W95).

	Well, yes and no... My build script failed to detect a 
miscompilation of g++, g77 and objc because of a failure at the end 
of the bootstrap phase: That's why I got all these errors. Sorry, I
definitely have to figure out how to fix this and avoid to pollute the
list with such reports.

Actually, it might be a good idea to add an existence test directly
in the testsuite ????
Another alternative would be to create a script (compile_summary) that
automatically makes makes a report for compilation failures (to be 
posted (eventually if not empty) to the egcs-bugs list with a Makefile
target as it is done for test results ???

Does this looks as a sensible idea ??

I'll try to find a way to do that if there is some interest (and 
agreement on where to put it) on this topic...
[My belief is that the second approach (compile_summary script)
 is better.]

On the other hand, the failure is not in the compiler, but in the 
documentation. The compilation was stopped in invoke.texi compilation
(an extraneous @end table that had not been removed): but this has been
corrected while I was producing a patch :-)


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