From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Mon Mar 2 05:05:25 2009 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at demon.co.uk Subject: Re: [MiNT] Gcc 3.3.6 v 4.0.1 From: Alan Hourihane To: Vincent =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rivi=E8re?= Cc: mint@fishpool.com In-Reply-To: <49ABABC3.2030509@freesbee.fr> References: <20090225103817.swnyw26m0wgk8osc@pop.freeola.net> <373EB9E0-576D-4D59-B0A9-829AD39EB08F@gmail.com> <49A535ED.6000008@freesbee.fr> <49A56B1A.9050304@atari-source.org> <49A5C597.9030003@freesbee.fr> <49A65413.2020403@freesbee.fr> <1235640237.13634.231.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <49AB214A.6020802@freesbee.fr> <1235954690.25551.96.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> <49ABABC3.2030509@freesbee.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:03:48 +0000 Message-Id: <1235988228.8006.9.camel@jetpack.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: alanh@fairlite.co.uk Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id n22A5O6f010228 On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 10:49 +0100, Vincent Rivière wrote: > Alan Hourihane wrote: > > Yes, so doing... > > > > stream->__cookie = (void *)obstack > > > > isn't enough either ?? > > The fact this line was missing was the second cause of failure. But it > isn't enough, because the static grow() function is totally broken. > Obviously, these functions have never been tested. > > I searched that code on the web, it seems that it comes from an old > version of the glibc. The current glibc is totally different. > > This is a big problem with the MiNTLib. It contains MiNT related stuff > (it is good), as well as a large amount of code coming from the glibc. > But that code is never updated. Right. I've noticed that too. I recently updated getopt handling. > Adding MiNT functionality to the MiNTLib is our job. But fixing the GNU > bugs which have been fixed for several years in the official > repositories is not. And that obstream stuff is totally unrelated to > MiNT, we all spent our time on things already fixed by other people. > This is bad. Indeed. timegm and the whole mktime time setup is another. We shouldn't need the whole timezone database in mintlib. I'll be working on that soon. Alan.