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Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 19:13:00 -0000
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28@cam.ac.uk>
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To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
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Subject: Re: C ABI changes between gcc 2.96 and gcc 3.2?
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On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, H. J. Lu wrote:

> Is that a known issue? I guess I can extract a testcase out of it. I
> think it may impact people who try to use gcc 2.96 with glibc compiled
> with gcc 3.2.

This would be the broken <stdbool.h> in 2.9x.  An untested patch for that
is at <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2002-09/msg00797.html> (without the
removal of the configure test for <stdbool.h> that should accompany it).  
Unless glibc uses or used <stdbool.h> this is irrelevant to glibc.

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Joseph S. Myers
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