Billy O'Connor wrote: > Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> writes: > >> I've finally figured out what is making the mangle33.C program fail. It >> is an arbitrary limitation in tcl. This particular gcc test creates a >> c++ namespace *name* of 4044 characters in length. It turns out that >> there is a value buried deep in tcl code (generic/regc_nfa.c): >> >> /* >> * Arbitrary depth limit. Needs tuning, but this value is sufficient to >> * make all normal tests (not reg-33.14) pass. >> */ >> #define DUPTRAVERSE_MAX_DEPTH 500 >> >> Changing this to 5000 makes the gcc test pass. Is it worthwhile to make >> this change in the Chapter 5 build of tcl? How about BLFS? > > Nice catch! Upstream should have heard about this by now, the gcc team > must have seen the same error(I hope). They'll want to fix it > themselves, so I'd patch tcl now and just change the instructions after > they apply the patch.
I think the test passes with older versions of tcl, so maybe the gcc devs don't know. I did send a message to the tcl mailing list to let them know of the issue. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
