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configopts.html: Minor updates and typo fixes. 

2001-02-15  Phil Edwards  <pme@sources.redhat.com>

	* docs/html/configopts.html:  Minor updates and typo fixes.
	* docs/html/faq/index.html:  Updates of the "not really bugs" list.
	* docs/html/faq/index.txt:  Regenerated.

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2001-02-15 Phil Edwards <pme@sources.redhat.com>
* docs/html/configopts.html: Minor updates and typo fixes.
* docs/html/faq/index.html: Updates of the "not really bugs" list.
* docs/html/faq/index.txt: Regenerated.
2001-02-15 Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr@codesourcery.com>
* testsuite/lib/libstdc++.exp: Lift, temporarily, out of
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libstdc++-v3/docs/html/configopts.html
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<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="vi and eight fingers">
<TITLE>libstdc++-v3 configure options</TITLE>
<LINK REL=StyleSheet HREF="lib3styles.css">
<!-- $Id: configopts.html,v 1.5 2001/01/30 09:18:50 bkoz Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: configopts.html,v 1.6 2001/02/07 00:03:20 pme Exp $ -->
</HEAD>
<BODY>
......@@ -100,8 +100,7 @@ options</A></H1>
<DD><P>This allows the user to define what kind of C headers are
used. Options are: c, c_std, and c_shadow. These correspond
to the source directory's include/c, include/c_std, and
include/c_shadow directories.
The default is c_std.
include/c_shadow directories. The default is c_std.
</P>
<DT><TT>--enable-threads </TT>
......@@ -151,25 +150,24 @@ options</A></H1>
flags to the compiler to use when building libstdc++. FLAGS
is a quoted string of options, like
<PRE>
--enable-cxx-flags='-fsquangle -fvtable-gc -ansi'</PRE>
--enable-cxx-flags='-fvtable-gc -fomit-frame-pointer -ansi'</PRE>
Note that the flags don't necessarily have to all be -f flags,
as shown, but usually those are the ones that will make sense
for experimentation and configure-time overriding.
</P>
<P>The advantage of --enable-cxx-flags over setting CXXFLAGS in
the 'make' environment is that, if libgcc is automatically
the 'make' environment is that, if files are automatically
rebuilt, the same flags will be used when compiling those files
as well, so that everything matches.
</P>
<P>Fun flags to try might include combinations of
<PRE>
-fstrict-aliasing
-fnew-abi
-fnew-exceptions
-fno-exceptions
-ffunction-sections
-fvtable-gc</PRE>
and -fno- forms of the same. Tell us (the mailing list) if
you discover more!
and opposite forms (-fno-) of the same. Tell us (the mailing
list) if you discover more!
</P>
<DT><TT>--enable-c-mbchar </TT>[default]
......@@ -178,7 +176,7 @@ options</A></H1>
changing rapidly, and can cause problems on new platforms.
Disabling wide character specializations is useful for initial
porting steps, but builds only a subset of what is required by
ISO. Default is on, but the <TT>--enable-c_stdio=stdio </TT>
ISO. Default is on, but the <TT>--enable-cstdio=stdio </TT>
option currently turns it off.
</P>
</DL>
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<HR>
<P CLASS="fineprint"><EM>
$Id: configopts.html,v 1.5 2001/01/30 09:18:50 bkoz Exp $
$Id: configopts.html,v 1.6 2001/02/07 00:03:20 pme Exp $
</EM></P>
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libstdc++-v3/docs/html/faq/index.html
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** Locations of "the most recent snapshot is the Nth" text are
** answers 1_1, 1_4, 4_1, 5_6.
-->
<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.1 2000/12/10 04:04:56 pme Exp $ -->
<!-- $Id: index.html,v 1.2 2001/01/23 17:02:27 pme Exp $ -->
</HEAD>
<BODY>
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<LI><A HREF="#4_2">Bugs in gcc/g++ (not libstdc++-v3)</A>
<LI><A HREF="#4_3">Bugs in the C++ language/lib specification</A>
<LI><A HREF="#4_4">Things in libstdc++ that look like bugs</A>
<BR><A HREF="#4_4_interface">The g++-3 headers are
<UL>
<LI><A HREF="#4_4_Weff">-Weffc++ complains too much</A>
<LI><A HREF="#4_4_rel_ops">&quot;ambiguous overloads&quot;
after including an old-style header</A>
<LI><A HREF="#4_4_interface">The g++-3 headers are
<STRONG>not ours</STRONG></A>
<LI><A HREF="#4_4_glibc">compilation errors from streambuf.h</A>
</UL>
<LI><A HREF="#4_5">Aw, that's easy to fix!</A>
</OL>
......@@ -489,8 +495,9 @@ to the list</A>, Nathan Myers announced that he has started a list of
<H2><A NAME="4_4">4.4 Things in libstdc++ that look like bugs</A></H2>
<P>There are things which are not bugs in the compiler (4.2) nor
the language specification (4.3), but aren't really bugs in
libstdc++, either. Really!
libstdc++, either. Really! Please do not report these as bugs.
</P>
<A NAME="4_4_Weff">
<P>The biggest of these is the quadzillions of warnings about the
library headers emitted when <TT>-Weffc++</TT> is used. Making
libstdc++ &quot;-Weffc++-clean&quot; is not a goal of the project,
......@@ -499,6 +506,8 @@ to the list</A>, Nathan Myers announced that he has started a list of
necessarily trying to be OO. There are multiple solutions
under discussion.
</P>
</A>
<A NAME="4_4_rel_ops">
<P>Another is the <TT>rel_ops</TT> namespace and the template
comparison operator functions contained therein. If they become
visible in the same namespace as other comparison functions
......@@ -508,8 +517,9 @@ to the list</A>, Nathan Myers announced that he has started a list of
<A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/2001-01/msg00247.html">sums
things up here</A>.
</P>
<H3><A NAME="4_4_interface">The g++-3 headers are
<EM>not ours</EM></A></H3>
</A>
<A NAME="4_4_interface"><H3>The g++-3 headers are
<EM>not ours</EM></H3>
<P>If you have found an extremely broken header file which is
causing problems for you, look carefully before submitting a
&quot;high&quot; priority bug report (which you probably shouldn't
......@@ -527,6 +537,24 @@ to the list</A>, Nathan Myers announced that he has started a list of
but <A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-10/msg00732.html">the
question has not yet been decided</A>.
</P>
</A>
<A NAME="4_4_glibc">
<P>If you're on a GNU/Linux system and have just upgraded to
glibc 2.2, but are still using gcc 2.95.2, then you should have
read the glibc FAQ, specifically 2.34:
<PRE>
2.34. When compiling C++ programs, I get a compilation error in streambuf.h.
{BH} You are using g++ 2.95.2? After upgrading to glibc 2.2, you need to
apply a patch to the include files in /usr/include/g++, because the fpos_t
type has changed in glibc 2.2. The patch is at
http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/gccinclude-glibc-2.2-compat.diff
</PRE>
Note that 2.95.x shipped with the
<A HREF="#4_4_interface">old v2 library</A> which is no longer
maintained.
</P>
</A>
<HR>
<H2><A NAME="4_5">4.5 Aw, that's easy to fix!</A></H2>
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a working fix, then send it in! The main GCC site has a page
on <A HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html">submitting
patches</A> that covers the procedure, but for libstdc++ you
should of course send the patch to our mailing list, not the
GCC mailing list. The libstdc++
should also send the patch to our mailing list in addition to
the GCC patches mailing list. The libstdc++
<A HREF="../17_intro/contribute.html">contributors' page</A>
also talks about how to submit patches.
</P>
......@@ -678,7 +706,7 @@ HREF="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/libstdc++/1999/msg00084.html">speculation</A>.
Comments and suggestions are welcome, and may be sent to
<A HREF="mailto:pme@sources.redhat.com">Phil Edwards</A> or
<A HREF="mailto:gdr@gcc.gnu.org">Gabriel Dos Reis</A>.
<BR> $Id: index.html,v 1.1 2000/12/10 04:04:56 pme Exp $
<BR> $Id: index.html,v 1.2 2001/01/23 17:02:27 pme Exp $
</EM></P>
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