In terms of actual volume of patches against upstream, and excluding SVN
updates, the diff from the base Debian 4.2.3-2 version and Ubuntu 8.04's
4.2.3-2ubuntu7 is about 40 KB.
If so, what is it meant to change?
Matthias (CCed) should be able to give more information on any
Are the statements below true?
Is the Ubuntu patch really 5 MB?
If so, what is it meant to change?
From: John Regehr [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...the default C
compiler for Ubuntu [GNU/]Linux 8.04 is a patched gcc-4.2.3 which (on x86)
miscompiles this rather simple function:
int func_1 (void)
{
