Re: other/6955: collect2 says "core dumped" when there is no core

[Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>]

The following reply was made to PR other/6955; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Mike Stump <mrs@apple.com>
To: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@ticam.utexas.edu>
Cc: "Kaveh R. Ghazi" <ghazi@caip.rutgers.edu>, bruno@clisp.org,
   gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: other/6955: collect2 says "core dumped" when there is no core
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:59:09 -0800

 On Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 09:00 AM, Wolfgang Bangerth wrote:
 > Well, the line we are talking about is collect2.c:1511. This line has 
 > time
 > stamp 1999-11-25, CVS version 1.87, which was your commit. Now, I
 > acknowledge that if I had checked more carefully, then I'd have seen 
 > that
 > your patch only preserved existing (wrong) behavior, but I haven't 
 > found a
 > way to get the equivalent of cvs annotate of past versions to see who
 > really introduced this.
 
 cvs diff will tell you.  From there, cvs log and look at the comment 
 and the date of the change, and from there, it's back the the ChangeLog 
 entry.  Also, the old gcc RCS files can be found on the web site, and 
 can be used to track down things past an old  gcc import.