On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:14:20PM -0400, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > I just got this message from the gcc-announce list. We've seen bug > reports related to GCC 2.96 (which may or may not be the problem). We > need to be aware that these releases are out there and can be a > problem. > I've noticed that the version of GCC shipped with Mandrake 7.1 is > "gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)", which doesn't give my much > confidence either. ;( The 'unstable' branch of Debian currently ships with: gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux) and it seems to be working fine. I did notice a problem, but it was related to glibc 2.1.94, not gcc: LONG_BIT was wrongly defined to 64. Tim's sanity-check, which checks LONG_BIT against (SIZEOF_LONG * 8), would have caught that one, but I found it on my machine before he checked in that fix ;) For me, that problem was caused by the /usr/include/bits/xopen_lim.h include file: /* Number of bits in a word of type ong int'. */ #if LONG_MAX == 2147483647 # define LONG_BIT 32 #else /* Safe assumption. */ # define LONG_BIT 64 #endif where LONG_MAX was not defined (yet). I fixed it 'manually' for more than just Python by adding #ifndef LONG_MAX #define LONG_MAX 2147483647 #endif above it. I had to laugh, though, when I saw that assuming longs had 64 bits is considered 'a safe assumption'. I guess most people use 64 bit machines nowadays ? :-) I'm not complaining about this, though. Woody (Debian's current unstable tree) is bleeding edge, and I'm fully prepared to live with it. In fact, I love it! But people testing out glibc 2.1.90+ should keep this in mind. I'm also wondering where to send my bugreport, but I think I'll read some documentation before I do that, first ;) -- Thomas Wouters <thomas@xs4all.net> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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