Re: gnome stuff ...
On 7 Mar 1999, Brian Warner wrote:
> luther@maxime.u-strasbg.fr (Sven LUTHER) writes:
>
> > so far i have compiled glib/gtk and imlib, but more will come, i just got
> > all sources packages today. ... the glib/gtk1.2 are ok, in fact they will
> > go to unstable once the source comes out of incoming ( i guess it will be
> > built by the built daemon, since it worked fine for me.)
>
> Is that gtk+ built with the egcs-bug workaround? (the test is to run the
> 'gtk/testgtk' program that is built along with the libraries, and choose the
> 'clist' option: it will crash without the workaround). There's a bug in egcs
> in which functions with a large number of arguments (maybe 8 or 9?) compiled
> with -fPIC -O2 will crash. Compiling such files -O1 is OK. The only files I've
> ever seen trigger this bug are in gtk+. I reported the bug to the egcs folks
> last year and it's in the testsuite (980523-1.c), but as of 2 weeks ago it had
> not yet been fixed.
egcs 1.1.2 pre release 1 or 2 and up are fixed, iirc.
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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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