From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) To: drepper@cygnus.com Cc: egcs@cygnus.com Subject: Re: libio patches for glibc 2.1 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 13:07:00 -0000 Message-id: References: X-SW-Source: 1998-02/msg01078.html > > hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes: > > > I, as a glibc 2.1 developer, don't want to use egcs snapshot, which > > is known (intentional) to break from time to time, for glibc 2.1. I > > want a stable compiler which is compatible with glibc 2.1. I don't > > want another factor in my glibc 2.1 work. > > I do understand this, of course. The problem is only that by putting > in more and more changes into egcs 1.0 it might not stabilize and > especially with volatile code like the egcs/glibc 2.1 interface this > might require even more changes once egcs 1.0.2 is out. You should > case about Jeff who really likes to devote his time on egcs 1.1 > instead of another 1.0 release. > The changes for glibc 2.1 to egcs will be pretty much limited to libstdc++/libio. They should not change the gcc directory itself and they probably won't affect any other systems. They should be quite safe. > If Jeff has no objections about adding the code to egcs 1.0, go ahead. > The code itself is correct, my only fear is that it might not be the > last required change. > I'd like to see a stable compiler for glibc 2.1. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)