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Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:12:27 +0300
From: Andris Pavenis <andris DOT pavenis AT iki DOT fi>
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Subject: Unstability of last builds of GCC
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I have noticed unstability of last my builds of GCC
- version 4.6.3 (all languages supported earlier)
- version 4.7.0 (Ada supported for cross-compiler only
   due to build problems)

I have not tried to build GCC using my build of gcc-4.7.0
yet, but using installed version of gcc-4.6.3 causes
compile to randomly fail in stage1 (compiler complains
about syntax errors, rerunning causes compiling the same
file to succeed). It is especially noticeable when
building gcc-4.7.0.

One could suggest that it could be caused by use
of binutils-2.22 (most likely suspect is last
DJGPP COFF format updates).

Stripped executables seems to be less stable.
The problems can be reproduced both with DJGPP v2.03r2
and current CVS (really about 1-2 weeks old)

Building with gcc-4.6.2 seems to work much better.

Andris