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@@ -203,11 +203,11 @@ a local mirror first.
You should always try to use the latest official release. Older versions
may not have all the features GNU libc requires. The current releases of
-egcs (1.0.3 and 1.1) and GNU CC (2.8.1) should work with the GNU C library
-(for powerpc see question 1.5; for ARM see question 1.6).
+egcs (1.0.3 and 1.1.1) should work with the GNU C library (for powerpc see
+question 1.5; for ARM see question 1.6).
-{ZW} You may have problems if you try to mix code compiled with
-EGCS and with GCC 2.8.1. See question 2.8 for details.
+{ZW} Due to problems with C++ exception handling, you must use EGCS (any
+version) to compile version 2.1 of GNU libc. See question 2.8 for details.
1.3. When I try to compile glibc I get only error messages.
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@ to the root of the 2.2 tree and do `make include/linux/version.h'.
static arrays is very slow. The compiler will eventually finish; give it
time.
-The problem is fixed in egcs 1.1 but not in earlier releases.
+The problem is fixed in egcs 1.1.
1.10. When I run `nm -u libc.so' on the produced library I still
@@ -729,8 +729,7 @@ libc. It doesn't matter what compiler you use to compile your program.
For glibc 2.1, we've chosen to do it the other way around: libc.so
explicitly provides the EH functions. This is to prevent other shared
-libraries from doing it. You must therefore compile glibc 2.1 with EGCS
-unless you don't care about ever importing binaries from other systems.
+libraries from doing it. You must therefore compile glibc 2.1 with EGCS.
Again, it doesn't matter what compiler you use for your programs.