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Re: Major bug -- Exception handling broken


From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker@butlermfg.com>
> 
> My hunch about the specs file was wrong.  There are no entries related to
> g++.  However I did track this down to a problem with g++ using libm.a.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> gcc -v foo.cpp -o foo -lstd++ (OKAY)
> gcc -v foo.cpp -o foo -lstd++ -lm(BAD)
> gcc -v foo.cpp -o foo -lm (BAD)
> 
> So the problem seems to be with libm.a.  

Cygwin's libm.a is a symlink to libcygwin.a. I'll try replacing it
with a dummy stub library ... <tries it> ... nope, that made ld crash.

> I did a little more looking around and discovered that g++ should not be
> linking against -lm.  So, I came up with the following patch that at least
> make g++ able to compile a working version of the trivial test listed above.
> It looks like a previous patch of Mumit's may have gotten dropped.
> 
> If you cannot rebuild gcc, I can email a stripped and gzip'd version of the
> fixed g++. It is only 29,995 bytes.

That would be good. Thanks for all your help!

-- 
Ross Smith <ross.s@ihug.co.nz> The Internet Group, Auckland, New Zealand
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