Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> writes: > I've finally figured out what is making the mangle33.C program fail. It > is an arbitrary limitation in tcl. This particular gcc test creates a > c++ namespace *name* of 4044 characters in length. It turns out that > there is a value buried deep in tcl code (generic/regc_nfa.c): > > /* > * Arbitrary depth limit. Needs tuning, but this value is sufficient to > * make all normal tests (not reg-33.14) pass. > */ > #define DUPTRAVERSE_MAX_DEPTH 500 > > Changing this to 5000 makes the gcc test pass. Is it worthwhile to make > this change in the Chapter 5 build of tcl? How about BLFS?
Nice catch! Upstream should have heard about this by now, the gcc team must have seen the same error(I hope). They'll want to fix it themselves, so I'd patch tcl now and just change the instructions after they apply the patch. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
