On 7 Mar 1999, Brian Warner wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sven LUTHER) writes: > > > so far i have compiled glib/gtk and imlib, but more will come, i just got > > all sources packages today. ... the glib/gtk1.2 are ok, in fact they will > > go to unstable once the source comes out of incoming ( i guess it will be > > built by the built daemon, since it worked fine for me.) > > Is that gtk+ built with the egcs-bug workaround? (the test is to run the > 'gtk/testgtk' program that is built along with the libraries, and choose the > 'clist' option: it will crash without the workaround). There's a bug in egcs > in which functions with a large number of arguments (maybe 8 or 9?) compiled > with -fPIC -O2 will crash. Compiling such files -O1 is OK. The only files I've > ever seen trigger this bug are in gtk+. I reported the bug to the egcs folks > last year and it's in the testsuite (980523-1.c), but as of 2 weeks ago it had > not yet been fixed.
egcs 1.1.2 pre release 1 or 2 and up are fixed, iirc. --- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://dobbstown.yeti.edu/
