Re: [parisc-linux] glibc binary NMU for hppa, built with gcc-3.4

> John David Anglin writes:
> > > Following the discussion on parisc, I uploaded glibc built with
> > > gcc-3.4. Validated, that gcc-4.0 bootstraps again and the python build
> > > errors are gone.
> > 
> > Does this fix GCC PR 23731?
> 
> down to 475 test failures. Maybe related to PR23602

I suspect that there are still glibc issues.

With 2.3.2.ds1-22, I don't see anywhere this number of fails:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2005-09/msg00946.html.
>From testing with 4.1, I know that the SyncTest and Thread_Monitor
can be fixed by adding locking to the pa compare_and_swap
implementation for java.  This is important on SMP systems.

I made a couple of changes to libjava on head which fixed problems
with java exception handling on the pa:

2005-08-21  John David Anglin  <dave.anglin <at> nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>

        PR libgcj/23507
	* stacktrace.cc (_Jv_StackTrace::UnwindTraceFn): Fix typo in newLength
	assignment.  Cast operands of compare to function pointer type.

2005-08-20  John David Anglin  <dave.anglin <at> nrc-cnrc.gc.ca>

        PR libgcj/21692
	* sysdep/pa/descriptor.h: New file.