EGCS 1.1.1 FYI

[Elgin Lee]

>>>>> In <19981207200522.A4510 at tiktok.cygnus.com> 
>>>>>	Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus.com> wrote:

> test being backwards.  If you don't use trampolines (including running the
> compiler testsuite), you won't see the problem.  If you don't know what
> trampolines are then you probably aren't using them.

glibc-0.961212 uses trampolines for the nsswitch-based name resolver
functions (e.g., gethostbyname()).  If you use an unpatched egcs-1.1.1
to compile a program using one of those routines, the program will
crash on that call.

--Elgin

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