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Re: libc git tst-array checks fail
From: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2012 15:58:47 +0000
> On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
>> > If you can verify that the test builds and works (at least your change
>> > doesn't regress it) with GCC 4.3 and binutils 2.20, then put it in.
>>
>> I don't have GCC 4.3. Could someone please test it with
>> GCC 4.3 and binutils 2.20?
>
> Building with 4.3 has been broken for about a year (because 4.4 is the
> first version that predefines __CHAR16_TYPE__ and __CHAR32_TYPE__, as
> needed by uchar.h). Although fixing this particular issue would be easy
> (the types are required by C11 to be the same as uint_least16_t and
> uint_least32_t, and we only have a single version of stdint.h), and would
> be beneficial to any users of glibc trying to use uchar.h with older
> compilers rather than only being relevant to building glibc with older
> compilers, given the lack of interest so far in fixing the build with 4.3
> it would seem reasonable to make 4.4 the official documented minimum
> compiler for building glibc.
Agreed.