Re: gcc problems

[Dan Kegel <dank@kegel.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> 
>>The fields were named differently in old versions of glibc, but the whole
>> layout didn't change in any way.
>>
>> -  unsigned long int sc_rsvd[16];/* reserved for future use */
>> +  unsigned long int sc_rbs_base;/* NULL or new base of sighandler's rbs */
>> +  unsigned long int sc_loadrs;	/* see description above */
>> +  unsigned long int sc_ar25;	/* cmp8xchg16 uses this */
>> +  unsigned long int sc_ar26;	/* rsvd for scratch use */
>> +  unsigned long int sc_rsvd[12];/* reserved for future use */
>>
>> > The easiest workaround is probably to install libunwind on your system
>>
>> The right fix is not to use a 2 years old glibc.
> 
> 
> That's not very old.  One shouldn't have to upgrade libc just to build gcc?

Did the two-year-old libc really support ia64 well?   I guess Itanium 1 was
out then, but those were early days...
- Dan