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| author | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-03-10 16:08:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> | 1999-03-10 16:08:03 +0000 |
| commit | 91ea72b7d26907ddbfc5a155752ec506d926c804 (patch) | |
| tree | f4210ebf87585fe5b2a9ba28d6f69f8578cf91b2 /manual/install.texi | |
| parent | 11c293e1461b7823bea06ab8c025eae891846919 (diff) | |
Update.
1999-03-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
* stdio-common/printf_fphex.c: Move to ...
* sysdeps/generic/printf_fphex.c: ... here. Fix exponent of
extended precision number.
* sysdeps/m68k/printf_fphex.c: New file.
1999-03-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.cs.uni-dortmund.de>
* manual/stdio.texi: Fix typos.
Diffstat (limited to 'manual/install.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | manual/install.texi | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/manual/install.texi b/manual/install.texi index 5ac0e785c3..013c1a34e4 100644 --- a/manual/install.texi +++ b/manual/install.texi @@ -276,14 +276,15 @@ have bugs which only show up in big projects like GNU @code{libc}. Version 3.76.1 seems OK but some people have reported problems. @item -EGCS 1.1.1, 1.1 or 1.0.3 +EGCS 1.1.1, 1.1 or 1.0.3, or GCC 2.8.1 The GNU C library can only be compiled with the GNU C compiler family. -As of the 2.1 release, EGCS 1.0.3 or higher is required. GCC 2.8.1 cannot -be used due to an incompatible implementation of some internal compiler -support routines; see the FAQ for details. GCC 2.7.x is simply too -buggy. You can use whatever compiler you like to compile programs that -use GNU libc, but be aware that both GCC 2.7 and 2.8 have bugs in their +As of the 2.1 release, EGCS 1.0.3 or higher is required. GCC 2.8.1 can +also be used (but see the FAQ for reasons why you might not want to). +Earlier versions simply are too buggy. + +You can use whatever compiler you like to compile programs that use GNU +libc, but be aware that both GCC 2.7 and 2.8 have bugs in their floating-point support that may be triggered by the math library. On Alpha machines you need at least EGCS 1.1.1. Earlier versions don't |