From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: teunis <teunis@mauve.computersupportcentre.com>
Cc: egcs list <egcs@cygnus.com>
Subject: Re: linux-2.1.60/i586,glibc-2.0.5c,egcs-971114 snapshot :) 
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 22:06:00 -0000
Message-id: <13867.879919711@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.971117143148.2661A-100000@sigil.computersupportcentre.com>
X-SW-Source: 1997-11/msg00622.html

  In message < Pine.LNX.3.96.971117143148.2661A-100000@sigil.computersupportcentre.com >you write:
  > binutils-latest + support for additional wanted platforms (eg. Win32 :)
  > libraries?  I don't know where to obtain them.
  > Same for simulator....  (why a simulator?)
Well, for many you can use the latest newlib release.

You'd want a instruction set simulator so that you can run the "execution"
tests -- particularly useful if you don't have a target board, or it has
a terribly slow (less than ethernet) speed link.

  > Seems to prolly be a glibc-2.0.5c-ism...  as the other entry I've seen
  > here was from glibc-1 (libc5?)
Likely.

  > I also get random "exception 11"s - where I didn't used to with previous
  > compilers.  [they're quite consistent actually - but I haven't yet tracked
  > down what's causing them]
You might want to look at the g77 info files for "Signal 11 and Friends".  This
might be a hardware failure.

jeff