Bug#35389: glibc2.1 segfaults for C++ stream code from glibc2.0 system

[Joel Klecker <jk@espy.org>]

At 23:59 -0500 1999-03-31, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:14:37 -0500 (EST), Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.1.1-0pre1.2
> >
> > Two bugs were reported against Octave as the glibc2-compiled version
> > segfaults under glibc2.1.  Compiling with debugging enabled, and running
> > under gdb revealed that the segfault is not caused by Octave itself, but
> > rather by an interaction between glibc2.1 and stdlibc++.
>
> I ran your test program on my potato system and got no segfault.  Have
> you updated libstdc++ as well as libc?  libstdc++ must be recompiled
> to work with glibc 2.1.  My package versions are:

The problem occurrs when a program compiled on a glibc 2.0 system is 
run on a glibc 2.1 system.

> You appear to have a later version of libc6 than me; where did you
> find it?  ftp.us.debian.org doesn't have it.

It is older, actually.
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