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From: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>
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To: Geoff Keating <geoffk@redhat.com>
cc: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>,  <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Regression tester v. runtime libraries
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On 30 Nov 2001, Geoff Keating wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk> writes:
>
> > Does the automated regression tester check for regressions in the
> > libstdc++-v3 and libjava testsuites?
>
> In theory yes.
>
> However,
>
> - libstdc++-v3 got switched off because of a bug in linking C++
>   objects compiled with different optimisation levels that would cause
>   FAILs to appear and disappear at random; and

Is that the gcc <-> binutils mismatch with relocs against
symbols in discarded linkonce sections that we discussed on the
binutils list some time ago?  (That description certainly
matches what I saw then.)

brgds, H-P