Re: Freeze Goals -- WAS: September release
Hi,
On 17 Jul, J.H.M. Dassen wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 09:10:20 -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > Any estimate of how many packages will break with the upgrade?
>
> The kernel, if one compiles it without reading the upgrade notes; no other
> breakage is known or expected.
I know of at least two sets of packages that will break. My ACE and
TAO packages will break since there is a bug in gcc 2.95 that occurs
when a user overloads the C++ new operator with exception handling
disabled. gcc 2.95 emits an error stating that the overloaded new
operator must throw an exception despite the fact that exception
handling is explicitly disabled with -fno-exceptions. There are some
other problems, but this is the one we noticed the most.
We've already submitted a patch to the egcs maintainers but I don't
think the patch will is going to make it into the official gcc 2.95
release.
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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