No mention of 2.95.3's "atexit" problem on gcc home page

No mention of 2.95.3's "atexit" problem on gcc home page

[Chris Rankin]

Hi,

I was just about to upgrade my glibc-2.2.3 to
glibc-2.2.4 when I heard dark rumours that no 2.95.x
compiler could compile glibc-2.2. I found this quite
scary because *both* my boxes have glibc-2.2.3
compiled with gcc-2.95.3+nss-patch, which presumably
means that I have an "atexit-bug" waiting to happen...

I have scoured the Internet and uncovered two patches
for gcc:

2001-03-21  Jakub Jelinek  <jakub@redhat.com>

	* crtstuff.c (init_dummy): Use CRT_END_INIT_DUMMY if
defined.
	Remove ia32 linux PIC kludge and move it...
	* config/i386/linux.h (CRT_END_INIT_DUMMY): ...here.

And then this later one for creating weak symbols:

	* rtl.h (SYMBOL_REF_WEAK): New macro.
	* rtlanal.h (rtx_addr_can_trap): Use it, a weak
SYMBOL_REF can trap.
	* varasm.c (make_decl_rtl): Mark SYMBOL_REF weak if
necessary.
	* rtl.texi (SYMBOL_REF_WEAK): Document it.
	* gcc.texi: Remove wrong description.

Now I'm hoping that these are the right patches and
the right *versions* of the patches. However, they
would both seem like excellent candidates to be posted
on

http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html

They're not there right now; maybe someone could add
them?

Cheers,
Chris


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Re: No mention of 2.95.3's "atexit" problem on gcc home page

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Sep 17, 2001, Chris Rankin <rankincj@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Now I'm hoping that these are the right patches and
> the right *versions* of the patches. However, they
> would both seem like excellent candidates to be posted
> on

> http://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html

Since I suppose they only affect glibc, it's the glibc documentation
that should cover them.

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