Florian Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jérôme Marant) writes: > >>> This is not correct. The Debian version hasn't passed *any* >>> validation tests. >> >> I don't get it. The debian package is built from the ACT >> source. > > Yes, but it links against a different libc version. This *can* make a > difference, especially in tasking. The bootstrapping process can > introduce additional errors, too.
Sure. But the source was at least very well tested. This is all we can guarantee. > In addition, there were known bugs in the pthreads-based tasking > support which prevents successful conpletation of all ACATS tests. > AFAIK, these problems remain in 3.14p, and only the run-time library > based FSU Threads was ever validated. Ah OK. >>> The latest FSF release (and the most stable one, I believe, both GCC >>> 3.1 and 3.1.1 are very similar to it) is GCC 3.2. >> >> The most stable one? There are many annoying bugs IIRC. > > There aren't any other FSF releases (besides 3.1 and 3.1.1), so it is > the most stable one. ;-) The problem is that ACT people have never really told about what they plan for the FSF release. -- Jérôme Marant http://marant.org